Quotes About Humanity

explorer, Armand Gamache delved into what people thought, but mostly how they felt. Because that was where actions were conceived. Noble acts. And acts of the greatest cruelty.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,

They could stop being pillars and just be people.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men,' said Myrna. 'Dr Martin Luther King, Junior.

the world is a cruel place, but it's also filled with more goodness than we ever realized. And you know what? Kindness beats cruelty. In the long run. It really does. Believe me.

I have seen flowers come in stony places, And kind things done by men with ugly faces,' Gamache said,

It was really a meditation on what he'd learned watching these people. What he'd learned about them and the nature of humanity and what he'd learned about himself. It was a remarkable study of arrogance and humility and, above all, forgiveness.

And thought about tyranny, and murder. And whether it was ever right to kill one for the sake of the many.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,' Jane said almost under her breath. 'Auden,' she explained, nodding to the book in Gabri's hand and flashing a smile that broke the unexpected, and unexplained, tension.

in her Montreal office the day a batch of rejection letters arrived, ripping them into pieces and dropping them on the floor for the hired help to clean up. 'This world is messed up, I tell you. People are cruel and insensitive, they're out to screw each other. There's no love or compassion. This', she sliced her book violently in the air like an ancient mythical hammer, heading for an unforgiving anvil, 'will teach

from W. H. Auden: "Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Besides, while Gamache wanted very much to solve the crime, he didn't want to lose his soul in the process. He suspected there were enough lost souls already.

He'd once heard a judge say the most humane way to execute a prisoner was to tell him he was free. Then kill him. Gamache had struggled against that, argued against it, railed against it. Then finally, exhausted, had come to believe it.

could be so much deliberate cruelty and so much kindness in one species.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, Auden had written. And shares our bed and eats at our own table. Armand had

the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind.

Actually, the real mystery is why more people don't commit murder. It must be terrible to be human.

Are we really growing more civilised? More tolerant? Less violent? If things had changed, you wouldn't be here.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

The blindness you mention isn't believing in the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

his large, expressive hands hovering over the tiny circle of blood marring her fluffy cardigan, as though like a magician he could remove the wound and restore the woman. But he could not. That wasn't his gift. Fortunately for Gamache he had others.

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done.

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done." "Why would he quote a death-row nun?" asked Joan.