Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw…

— Minh-Ha Trinh T

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

“At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he arrived, what…

— Sean DeLauder

“if history remembered him as an idiot, well, he was only one among billions of people. History could spare one man. All men are…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none…

— Tonny K. Brown

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous