Altered Quote by Arundhati Roy

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were…

— Gwendoline Christie

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been…

— Clifford D. Simak

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

— Margaret Atwood

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

— Woodrow Wilson

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human…

— Bernie Sanders

The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious…

— John Buchan

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

— Jane Hamilton

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some…

— Barack Obama

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

— William Cowper

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Time and time again in history, it's the emotional argument that wins. Probably since 70,000 BC we've been making decisions in a similar way.

— Bettany Hughes

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and…

— Carl Sagan