Quotes About Humanity

Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.

If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.

All life worked in concert, he'd been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

Cobb,' I said, stepping closer. 'Those aren't bloodthirsty monsters out there; they're just people. Normal people, with lives, and loves, and families.' 'And what did you *think* we've been fighting against all these years?' Cobb asked.

Stories and legends, Teft," Kaladin said. "We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now. They were corrupt then.

They were people. They were all just… people. With strange carapaces or odd life cycles. They lived, and they loved.

Indeed, the path to a life without empathy is a long and painful one, full of bartered humanity sold at a steep discount.

it is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

La esperanza es algo grandioso, y tener héroes resulta esencial para la aspiración humana. (...) Dicho eso, sí que tenéis que aprender a separar la historia y la forma en que te ha afectado del individuo que le dio pie.

If there is a god, then I think we could find him in the way we care about one another.

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

But isn't it remarkable that, given the chance for personal gain at the cost of others, so many people choose what is right?" "Because they fear the Almighty." "No," Jasnah said. "I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.

Humans don't have programming." "Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time—or the same function for contradictory reasons. Yet you ignore it sometimes. That is not a flaw. It is what makes you you." I

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

If there is one thing I can guarantee you about humankind, Last Listener, it is this: Provide them with a sword, and they will find a way to impale themselves upon it.

All people are foolish, just in different ways

before thousands upon thousands of people suffer.

My father used to say that there are two kinds of people in the world," Kaladin whispered, voice raspy. "He said there are those who take lives. And there are those who save lives.

Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera

Of course, Wax thought, starting to climb, what am I but a pile of blood and meat that gets up and walks around?

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.