“The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
“Right time waits for the right human,
Civilized world awaits a civilized human.
When the last barbwire is banned from life,
Passports become buspass and apes become human.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Earth is mighty, indeed," says the doctor. "But there is more than simple might, is there not? Is there not also patience? Is there not also resolve? What lasts longer--a heart that beats hard, or a heart that beats gentle?”
Source: So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.”
“A famous Russian proverb: Don't blame the mirror if your face is awry. (smile)”
Source: A DAY IN THE NEXT: A Journey From Brooklyn to Buddhism
“Most humans suffer from amnesia.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“Humanity does not deserve the beauty of the world, it certainly does not deserve this wonderful planet! And it will continue to not to deserve it until wars, arrogance, ignorance, inferiority complex, madness of beliefs, stupid ambitions, insane hostilities, until all this nonsense ends!”
“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves this single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, damaged, slaughtered - is this the essential fate of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
Source: Human Acts
“I think God is really a ruthless artist and earth is an early draft. This draft was bad, overloaded with gratuitous cruelty.”
Source: Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin