David Levithan Quotes

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.

Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.