Donald A. Wollheim Quotes

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Violent and quarrelsome men often come to a bloody end.

We are all flawed people.

Everybody is flawed, not just men.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

Yes, I do believe that human beings are not perfect.

At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.

One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.