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Quotes About Humanity

Do you believe in the human heart? Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and unique? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Veruješ li u ljudsko srce? Naravno, ne mislim na organ kao takav. Govorim u pesni?kom smislu. Ljudsko srce. Misliš li da tako nešto postoji? Nešto što svakog od nas ?ini posebnim i jedinstvenim?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Deja que te pregunte esto: ¿crees en el corazón humano? No me refiero al órgano físico, claro está. Me refiero a su sentido poético. El corazón humano. ¿Crees que existe tal cosa? ¿Algo que hace que cada uno de nosotros seamos especiales e individuales?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I must say, something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits; the simple kindness I had been thanked for, and the simple kindness I had been offered in return, caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he'd do with her? Play Parcheesi?
~ Kelley Armstrong
Hunting humans for sport? Eating them? the bitterness in his voice cut through me. Yeah, I caught that part. That doesn't have anything to do with you? He lifted his eyes, gaze shuttered. No? Not unless being a werewolf transforms you into a wolf AND a redneck moron.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Only humans kill for sport.
~ Kelley Armstrong
And Sam? Well, she's not even human, so she doesn't count." "Excuse me?" Sam said. "Face it, you're not one of those bendo-things. You're a robot. A cyborg. Probably an evil one, programmed to murder us all in our sleep." Corey snickered. "Yeah?" Sam lifted a fist to Hayley. "You want to try that one again, blondie?" Hayley looked at Daniel and me. "I rest my case.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That's all the fire Prometheus had to give us.
~ Kelly Link
Because love isn't just love. It's all he other stuff, too.
~ Kelly Link
He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.
~ Ken Bruen
Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.
~ Ken Follett
Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina
~ Ken Follett
A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom.
~ Ken Follett
Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best.
~ Ken Follett
It was a sunny day in early summer, and he could hear birdsong. In a nearby orchard that had so far escaped shelling, apple trees were blossoming bravely. Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best.
~ Ken Follett
And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws." Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. "But the man matters more than the law, as you know.
~ Ken Follett
En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.
~ Ken Follett
Je n'ai pas gagné au tribunal […] mais ce que j'ai obtenu est infiniment plus précieux. Aujourd'hui, j'ai sauvé l'âme d'un homme.
~ Ken Follett
Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.
~ Ken Follett
I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London—and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same.
~ Ken Follett
Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees
~ Ken Follett
Sostenemos como certeza manifiesta que todos los hombres fueron creados por igual».
~ Ken Follett