Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race

A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.