Michael Crichton Quotes

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.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

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

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.

Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

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

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

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

Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there's a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don't necessarily share yours, and hence they will help you penetrate yours through the miracle of criticism!

It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

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

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

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

You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

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