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I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.