John McAfee Quotes

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

The philosophers, who have inquired into the foundations of society, have all felt the necessity of going back to a state of nature; but not one of them has got there.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.

the more our societies grow, the more important trust becomes and the harder it is to build. And that is a paradox of modern societies.

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

I have definitely learned - and this is definitely a human nature thing - that people are willing to, in an interaction with a comedian, admit things and talk about things with candor that they would never admit to a group of friends or an individual.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

I don't think that swearing or gratuitous violence or sex make a show better. I just think there are natural rhythms to a human being in these situations, and what happens in these situations that cable allows is a natural reaction.