Community Quote by Franz Kafka

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote.…

— Cormac McCarthy

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted…

— Augusten Burroughs

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

— Caleb Carr

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

— Friedrich Schiller

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

— Anonymous

“The reality [of what life was like for the whole of our species for at least 90 percent of its history] was very different…

— Chris Harman

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

— Isadora Duncan

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

— Zhuangzi

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the…

— Calvin Coolidge