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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
“All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill — today!”
“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”
“Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
“Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.”
“In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up is a 2018 non-fiction book by Tom Phillips, published by Headline Publishing Group in the United Kingdom, and Hanover Square Press in the United States. Phillips is the editor of the fact-checking organisation Full Fact.