Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Your people of refined sentiments are the most troublesome creatures in the world to deal with.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent — salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term "exist" nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.

Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

When I said that 90 per cent Indians are fools I spoke an unpleasant truth. The truth is that the minds of 90 per cent Indians are full of casteism, communalism, superstition.

God is a nuisance for modern man.

No thought in the world is worse than the realization that, “My life is a nuisance to others. I am useless."

And ninety-nine percent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences. We’re just built that way.