Human mind Quote by Frederick Douglass

“But what a horrible world 'society' is.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“The horrors conjured up by the mind are always so much worse than what is.”

— Paula Hawkins

“The infinite variety of human badness.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The human mind creates a fundamental problem for human existence. The mind can always imagine a better state of the world than currently exists. …

— Thomas Dalton

“We’ve seen that our brains can be manipulated by political agendas to dehumanize other people, which can then lead to the darkest side of…

— David Eagleman

“A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive,…

— Lisa Firestone

“In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.”

— Richard Carlson

“And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century. The subtle…

— james baldwin

“Fear is a society induced state of confusion.”

— Steven Redhead