Doris Lessing Quotes on Human nature
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Mrs. Lessing's view of recent politics is not everyone's. Her view of the future (inevitably brutish and painful) is that it is the present: that we are all hypnotized, awaiting cataclysms which we are in fact living through now; that we are now - as we run and read - in the process of a rapid evolution; that we are mutating fast but can't see it, the chief characteristic of our race being its inability to see what is under its nose; that historians and scientists, in their timid traditionalism, feed our fantasy view of ourselves - suppressing truths about the human condition, about madness, about sanity, about the essential nature of the mind.