Stephen Fry Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

• I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

  Stephen Fry

  Discovery, Age, Modern

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

• Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

  Stephen Fry

  Law, Historical, Example

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.146, Penguin

• If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

  Stephen Fry

  Responsibility, Destiny, Order

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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