"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."

-- Tony Hillerman

#Book Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later”
“Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.”

Source : Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.
“Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!”
“Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”
“We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.”

Source : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.229, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.”

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