Neil Gaiman Quotes

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.

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

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

I think everybody's got a malicious side.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

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

In truth, I do not recollect in all the animal kingdom a single species but man which is eternally and systematically engaged in the destruction of its own species.

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.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.