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“Just as I was about to close my eyes I saw a faint line connecting the shadows, like string you take into a forest so you dont lose your way. Everything in the room was joined by one line; the fram...”
“We sense that normal isnt coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
“We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are ...”
“People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.”
“People who discriminate understand that they are a stranger to others.”
“Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.”
“If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be cal...”
“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to ...”
“Being happy at others cost...not a sign of humanity.”
“Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.”
“Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didnt tell me. He turned me into a murderer. Worse than a murderer.I think, said Nick, they call that manslaughter or wrongful death, dont they...”
“The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.”
“I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most...”
“I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.”
“Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization...”
“But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.”
“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”
“He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I apprec...”
“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murderimmortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhousehumanity.”
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”
