Quotes About Humanity

Because how am I to know, dammit? When I cut my finger, I bleed. I bleed every month, too. I get belly-ache when I overeat, and a hangover when I get drunk. When I'm happy I sing and I swear when I'm sad. When I hate someone I kill them and when—But enough of this! Your answer, witcher.

Because a story where the decent ones die and the scoundrels live and carry on doing what they want is full of shit.

The wish, Geralt! Hurry up! What do you desire? Immortality? Riches? Fame? Power? Might? Privileges? Hurry, we haven't any time!' He was silent. 'Humanity,' she said suddenly, smiling nastily. 'I've guessed, haven't I? That's what you want, that's what you dream of! Of release, of the freedom to be who you want, not who you have to be. The djinn will fulfil that wish, Geralt. Just say it.

You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves. It's a shame there are so few of you.

That makes no sense. Who would want to destroy the world? Wars aren't waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.

Indeed, Urcheon of Erlenwald made a strange request of King Roegner, a strange reward to demand when the king offered him his wish. But let us not pretend we've never heard of such requests, of the Law of Surprise, as old as humanity itself. Of the price a man who saves another can demand, of the granting of a seemingly impossible wish. 'You will give me the first thing that comes to greet you.

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

For it's a human and a good thing. Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.

Mamá, ¿es que son demonios? ¿Es la persecución salvaje? ¿Monstruos del infierno? ¡Mamá, mamá! Silencio, silencio, niños. No son demonios, no son diablos... Peor. Son seres humanos

Quiet, quiet, children. They are not demons, not devils… Worse than that. They are people.

Kto to by?, Geralt? - Druh. B?dzie mi go bardzo brak. - By? cz?owiekiem? - Uosobieniem cz?owiecze?stwa (...)

And even if you don't make a mistake, an opportunity will arise to blame you for something. Some misfortune, some disaster, some pestilence, perhaps a plague or an epidemic, will fall on humanity… Then your guilt will descend on you. You will not be blamed for having been unable to prevent the plague, but for being unable to remove its effects. You shall be to blame for everything. And then fires will be lit under stakes.

What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.

Soon there won't be any strigas, wyverns, endriagas or werewolves left in the world. But there'll always be whoresons.

Si notre capacité à tirer profit de notre expérience et à en retenir les leçons était décisive, nous aurions oublié depuis longtemps ce qu'est la guerre. Mais aucune expérience, aucune analogie n'est parvenue à empêcher ceux qui veulent la guerre de la faire, et il en sera toujours ainsi.

El mundo es grande —repitió el elfo—. Eso es cierto, humano. Pero vosotros cambiasteis el mundo. Al principio lo cambiasteis a la fuerza, obrasteis con él como con todo lo que ha caído en vuestras manos. Ahora resulta que el mundo ha comenzado a adaptarse a vosotros. Se ha plegado ante vosotros. Os obedece.

I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.

Il mio più gran dietto è la bontà illimitata. Io devo semplicemente fare del bene. Ma sono un nano ragionevole e so che non riuscirò mai a farlo per tutti. Se provassi a essere buono con tutti, col mondo intero e con tutte le creature che lo popolano, sarebbe una goccia nel mare: in altre parole, uno sforzo inutile. Perciò ho deciso di fare del bene in modo concreto, così che non vada sprecato. Sono buono con me e con chi mi è più vicino.

Statt so zu leben, wie es die Natur uns heißt, haben wir begonnen, diese Natur zu vernichten.

They are not demons, not devils . . . Worse than that. They are people.

The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use of, are dying, diminishing, deteriorating. We never cultivated the land. Unlike you humans we never tore at it with hoes and ploughs. To you, the earth pays a bloody tribute. It bestowed gifts on us. You tear the earth's treasures from it by force. For us, the earth gave birth and blossomed because it loved us. - 197

And they dare say that we, humans, invented all the dirty tricks. On the other hand…' 'Hem, hem?' coughed Ori Reuven, surprised by his boss's sudden – and then continuing – silence. 'On the other hand, they may have finally begun to learn from us,' said the spy coldly, looking down at the denunciations, interrogation reports and death sentences.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Il bisogno di espiazione, di un battesimo del fuoco purificatore, il senso di colpa non sono cose di cui possa arrogarti l'esclusiva. La vita si distingue dal mondo bancario perché conosce debiti che si pagano indebitandosi col prossimo.