Kanye West Quotes

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

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

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.