Humanity

"It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet."

"Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions."

"The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most."

"One of the best things about humans is their ability to love."

"I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane"

"There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right of a husband, you rob his children of a father. When you lie you steal someone's right to truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no more wretched act than stealing. A man who takes what is not his to take, be it life or a loaf of naan, I spit on such a man. And if I ever cross paths with him, God help him."

"Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more."

"All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation."

"By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath."

"People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose...?"

"We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated — we are all meant to love and be loved."

"He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, its pathetic victories and inevitable failures. The community of enslaved Imass thrived in this quagmire of pettiness. They even managed to convince themselves that they possessed freedom, a will of their own that could shape destiny. They elected champions. They tore down their champions once failure draped its shroud over them. They ran in endless circles and called it growth, emergence, knowledge. While over them all, a presence invisible to their eyes, Raest flexed his will. His greatest joy came when his slaves proclaimed him god – though they knew him not – and constructed temples to serve him and organized priesthoods whose activities mimicked Raest’s tyranny with such cosmic irony that the Jaghut could only shake his head."

"Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization."

"Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet."

"A wise human’s life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience."

"I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human."

"The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time."

"Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people."

"Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves."