Quotes About Humanity

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

Are we savages or what?

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I'm frightened. Of us.

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on. Ralph moaned faintly. Tired though he was, he could not relax and fall into a well of sleep for fear of the tribe. Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. 'Cos I had some sense.

I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

Uno tiene miedo porque la gente siempre tiene miedo.

We have to face it at last. We're not all human.

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

Nem nagyon segítenek az emberek! Azt akarta mondani, hogy az emberek sohasem pontosan olyanok, mint amilyennek elképzeljük Å'ket.

They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Bir hayvan olmad???n? biliyorum; yani öyle pençeleri filan olan bir hayvan demek istiyorum. Korkunun olmad???n? da biliyorum... ... Ancak insanlardan korkmad???m?z sürece.

And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

Quizá haya una bestia… quizá solo estemos nosotros

with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

I'm frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.

man produces evil as a bee produces honey

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.