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“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“We're all human beings here, one like the other.” Franz Kafka, “The Trial” - 1925

“Paper has more patience than people.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Idiot” - 1874

“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“As Buddhists, while we practice our own teaching, we must respect other faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and so forth. We must recognize and appreciate their contributions over many past centuries to human society, and at this time we must strive...” 14th Dalai Lama, “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight” - 1984

“I speak to you as just another human being; as a simple monk.” 14th Dalai Lama, “Nobel Lecture” - 1989

“We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being—neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another...” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“But isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“No longer did he feel shame for his hairless body or his human features, for now his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914

“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

“They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” Confucius, “Analects”

“There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into” George Orwell, “The Road to Wigan Pier” - 1937

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.” Stephen King, “The Stand” - 1978

“I would like to take this opportunity to explain the Zone of Ahimsa or peace sanctuary concept, which is the central element of the Five-Point Peace Plan. I am convinced that it is of great importance not only for Tibet, but for peace and...” 14th Dalai Lama, “Nobel Lecture” - 1989

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing...” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?” Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” - 1994

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“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 mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Capricorn” - 1939

“We’re all of us a million bits put together the right way.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary” - 2003

“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

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