Human Behavior Quotes

"You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption." "Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid." "Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it." "There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined." "Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises" "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian" "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." "For good people to do evil things, it takes religion" "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar" "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." "I suspect people of plotting to make me happy" "People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think" "The environment shapes people's actions." "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." "Men are cruel, but Man is kind." "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues"