"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
- Dalai Lama XIV
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."
- Bertolt Brecht
"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewl..."
- William Shakespeare
"I do not love men: I love what devours them."
- André Gide
"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is..."
- David McCullough
"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the w..."
- Guy de Maupassant
"I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like..."
- C. JoyBell C.
"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
- Woody Allen