Books Quote by Kirk D. Sinclair

“In this world where value is unknown, but the price of anything is marked, where the creation of self has been abandoned for the…

— Glenn Hefley

“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them away from…

— Steven Pinker

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

“To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and…

— Donald Rothberg

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

— Alfred Adler

“But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This doesn’t make…

— Steven D. Levitt

In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable…

— Stefan Zweig

“At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, suffering and bitter resentment. How many beautiful,…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses…

— Charlotte Brontë