Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the p...

The Feminine Mystique

Jack sprung to his feet out of reach. "I'd prefer to finish this intact. " "My apologies,” Cabal said, grinning viciously. "l keep forgetting, you're only human." His smile softened to full amusement as Jack raised his sword in challenge. "Human or...

When Magic Fails

Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside. Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to understand them. Their day is greedy as a lariat in the ai...

Jorge Luis Borges

[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of ...

George Orwell

There is an old question, rarely voiced these days, but nevertheless running as an undercurrent beneath the squabbles and misunderstandings that occur in households, workplaces and universities on a daily basis. ‘What do women want?’ has been ask...

Jane Caro Catherine Fox

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

The Count of Monte Cristo

When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

City of the Gods: Forgotten

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

The Compassionate Life

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

Carnival: A Novel

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The Collected Poems

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

Clockwork Prince

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

The Coming Storm

Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

The Casual Vacancy

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass of post-human organic circuitry. Cyperpunk is my mother tongue. My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Dawn of the Algorithm

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel