Humanity Quote by Colson Whitehead

“They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through…

— Thomas Mullen

“The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more. They were never destroyed. They were…

— Harper Lee

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“...they knew each other as much as they knew themselves, and their intimacy, rather like too many suitcases, was a matter of perpetual concern;…

— Ian McEwan

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;”

— Neil Gaiman

“When an imminent catastrophe requires the evacuation of humanity’s original home, the population escapes on three giant ships. The thinkers, leaders, and achievers take…

— Peter Thiel

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

“Opportunists prosper in the atmosphere of crisis, although fittingly even they are sometimes undone by their own scheming,”

— David Bevington

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within…

— J.G. Ballard

“Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city — beneath the surface like an undiscovered…

— Michael Connelly

“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers…

— H.G. Wells