"We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves."
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"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
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"Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming."
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"A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him."
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"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
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"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."
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"This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity."
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"Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself."
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"It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper."
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"They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom"
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"It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it."
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"We are all alike, on the inside."
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"Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?"
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"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."
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"Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day."
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"And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities."
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"Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?"
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"Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward."
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"Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love"
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