Charming Quote by Cassandra Clare

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

— Eileen Wilks

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've…

— Naveen Jain

“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers…

— Jean Thompson

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and…

— Dean Koontz

“Humans were capable of incredible cruelty, our father wanted me, my sister, and my brothers to understand. And just as dangerous, he made us…

— Joe Biden

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight…

— Rachel Joyce

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat…

— Albert Camus

“You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats scurrying off to…

— Elizabeth Strout

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money,…

— Margaret Mitchell

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else…

— Dave Eggers

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been…

— Quentin Crisp

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events…

— Stephen Jay Gould