Elon Musk Quotes

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.