H. L. Mencken Quotes

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

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

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

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

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

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.

Aren't all people flawed?

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Top players or experienced players make mistakes because we are human beings, we are people.

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.

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

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

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

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.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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

I'm not a perfect human being.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

History ... is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.