negative worldview Quotes

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.