Perfectibility Of Humankind Quotes

#1. The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#3. Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

James Franco

#5. A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Novalis

#6. After saying all that, what have we said, my God, my life, my holy sweetness? What does anyone who speaks of you really say? Yet woe betide those who fail to speak, while the chatterboxes go on saying nothing.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

Sia Furler