“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. […] They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. […] Just when you’d think they were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they could occasionally show more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.”
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
(This post is three quotes kind of jammed together. I think they go well as a group, though. Nice commentary on human nature and all.)
