The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain: Zitate über Menschen
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„Der Mensch tut viel, um geliebt zu werden, aber alles, um beneidet zu werden.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator
The Lowest Animal
Original engl.: "Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."
The Lowest Animal
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
What is Man? / Old Man
Original engl.: "Duties are not performed for duty's SAKE, but because their NEGLECT would make the man UNCOMFORTABLE."
Andere
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 2
Original engl.: "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, CCII
Original engl.: "I am quite sure that […] I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no colour prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. […] All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
„Der Mensch ist das einzige Lebewesen, das erröten kann. Oder sollte.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXVII
Original engl.: "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
Following the Equator
„Der Mensch wurde am Ende der Wochenarbeit erschaffen, als Gott bereits müde war.“
Notebook, 19. März 1903; in Mark Twain, a Biography Part 3 1900-1907
Original engl.: "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
Notebook