Books Quote by Thomas Harris

“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.”

— Noah Gordon

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“Though our survival system doesn’t always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.”

— Kelly McGonigal

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed…

— Winston Graham

“too—my god, what kind of brutal abomination dismisses the suffering of the majority of the world’s population as worth sustaining a tiny number of…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be…

— Boris Gunjević

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;”

— Shirley Jackson

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago