Werner Herzog Quotes

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Cyberspace

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

The Internet...is a series of tubes.