"The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand……" — Douglas Preston
"The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid."
—
Douglas Preston
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
21 Quotes by Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston has 21 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
-
The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end,…
-
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned…
-
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat…
-
Retribution is just outstanding.
-
Hubris and science are incompatible.
-
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room…
-
My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
-
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research…
-
There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
-
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of…
-
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I…
See all 21 quotes by Douglas Preston »
More Brutal Quotes
This quote is filed under Brutal Quotes,
one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
-
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
-
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
— Theodor Adorno
-
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it…
— Kate Bosworth
-
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should…
— Noam Chomsky
-
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
— Hillary Clinton
-
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
— Susan B. Anthony
-
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
-
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown…
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
— Alfred Binet
-
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
— Woodrow Wilson
-
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked.…
— Kofi Annan
See all 417 Brutal Quotes »