Anarchy Quote by Emma Goldman

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so…

— Hosea Ballou

“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions…

— Valerie Tarico

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

“The infinite variety of human badness.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own Minds afford…

— Henry Fielding

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no…

— Joseph Addison

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of…

— Emma Goldman

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some…

— Jim Butcher

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs