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Robert Burns1 quote
Man's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn! — Robert Burns · 1784Thomas Carlyle1 quote
O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other. — Thomas Carlyle · 1837Thomas Hobbes1 quote
Man to Man is an arrant wolf. — Thomas Hobbes · 1642Thomas Jefferson1 quote
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787William James1 quote
Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species. — William James · 1904William Wordsworth1 quote
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man? — William Wordsworth · 1798