Darwin/people

Famous quotes containing the words darwin and/or people:

    It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
    William Golding (b. 1911)

    It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)