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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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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” - 1980

“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

“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

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

“Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

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

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

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

“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

“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” - 1995

“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” - 1988

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” Anthony Burgess, “A Clockwork Orange” - 1962

“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

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?” Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” - 1994

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

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.” Elizabeth Gilbert, “Eat, Pray, Love” - 2006

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

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” Elie Wiesel, “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech” - 1986

“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

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

“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

“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” - 2007

“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

“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

“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” Ray Bradbury, “The Martian Chronicles” - 1950

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

“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” - 1949

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

“I may not be a human, but I am a man” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked!” George Carlin, “Napalm & Silly Putty” - 2001

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

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

“The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.” Stephen King, “The Shining” - 1977

“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” - 1880

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

“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” - 1850

“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

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