Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Humans
  • Interested

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Police
  • Destroy

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
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  • Humans

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Country
  • Job
  • Remember

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Painting
  • Destroy
  • Unconscious

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Humans
  • Might

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Destroy

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Humans
  • Plans

• Human beings crave freedom at their core.

  

  John Ensign
  • Humans
  • Core
  • Crave

• I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Fiction

• Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Humans
  • Species
  • Meals

• I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Destroy
  • Master
  • Disaster

• A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Responsibility
  • Hands
  • Humans

• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  

  Emerson Spartz
  • Humans
  • Ability
  • Influence

• When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Great
  • House
  • Light

• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Photography

• You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Humans
  • Destroy
  • Self-Deception