403 quotes found
“The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless bloo...”
“We huddle tightly together as cowards, protecting the ranks of our false collective identity from "less-human" intruders, when the only obvious and sane truth is that we are all the same human beings.”
“Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame.”
“Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavi...”
“Kyōko: You... you call yourself human?!Homura: Of course not. Neither are you.”
“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”
“I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.”
“Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!”
“The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.”
“When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.”
“When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.”
“At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.”
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.”
“Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.”
“In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense w...”
“We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignif...”
“Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours...”
“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain cov...”
“The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.”
“I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.”
