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

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

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

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

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

“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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” - 1949

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

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

“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

“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

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