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- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
- Unknown
- No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
- A.A. Milne
- The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
- Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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