Marilyn Manson Quotes

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is supposed to act like the world, and God tells us that every generation gets more wicked, so why the surprise? Maybe we have some word to swallow ourselves.

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

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

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

All men are liable to error; and most men, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We do have the best justice system in the world—in theory. The problem is that it is run by human beings. Human beings make mistakes

As in the infirmity of human nature, no man's actions are always what he likes to look back upon, as there are points in which he would wish that he had acted otherwise; so every man who tells his own story is under a temptation more or less to disguise the truth; and the more in proportion as his actions have been upon a larger scale, and his faults or mistakes therefore have been more flagrant.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding's view of human nature.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

It's so nice to see that one's opinion of humanity is accurately gauged.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

To be human is erroneous.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.