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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived in the desire for the perpetuation of things as they are. For them humanity-which they loved as we did-was something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us humanity was a distant goal towards which we were marching, whose image no one yet know, whose laws were nowhere written down.
    book-quotehumanitywill-of-nature

  2. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
    book-quotewarpeacehumanity

  3. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind--which they loved as much as we did--was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere."
    book-quotehumanityhermann-hesse

  4. Bret Easton Ellis _ American Psycho

    It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
    book-quotelifemurderhuman-beings

  5. J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories

    I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.
    book-quotelifehumanity

  6. J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories

    Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
    book-quotelifesocietyhumanity

  7. J.D. Salinger _ The Catcher in the Rye

    All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing "Come All Ye Faithful" like mad. Big deal. It's supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can't see anything religious or pretty, for God's sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would've puked if he could see it.
    book-quotetruthpeoplehumanity

  8. Paulo Coelho _ The Alchemist

    Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
    book-quotelifephilosophyhumanity

  9. Paulo Coelho _ The Devil and Miss Prym

    So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
    book-quotegoodhumanity

  10. Michael Chabon _ Moonglow

    The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.
    book-quotewarhumanityspace

  11. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    {T}he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. {68}
    book-quotelifefamilyliving

  12. Jonathan Franzen _ Farther Away

    Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart's revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self's own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
    book-quotelovehumanity
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