"We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth."
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"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being."
"In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human."
"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."
"We humans are more concerned with having than with being."
"There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be."
"No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL"
"There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."
"Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills."
"Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks."
"I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights."
"Every man has within himself the entire human condition"
"There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences."
"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."
"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing."
"No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them."
"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."