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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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

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

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“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

“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

“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

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.” Stephen King, The Shining

“The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“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

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

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

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

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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

“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

“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

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

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked!” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“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

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