Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

A person isn’t an assortment of body parts. A person is a collection of habits and decisions.


It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.