Adam Conover Quotes

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.

Scratch a pessimist, and you often find a defender of privilege.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Man is a robot with defects.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

I think people are screw-ups, and even our greatest heroes are deeply flawed human beings. People make bad decisions for all the wrong reasons, and then somehow they'll do the right thing, and then somehow they'll save somebody, or they'll be compassionate. Horrible people can do wonderful things, and wonderful people can do horrible things.

It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.