3 Tom Stoppard Quotes on Human nature

Tom Stoppard quotes on human nature

53. Bakunin: Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish. Herzen: Is that the same people or different people? Bakunin: The same people.

67. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

72. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.