"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Humanity Quotes

“We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.”

Source : "More glass from Google: ceo Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 05, 2012.
“There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.”
“I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”

Source : "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.
“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'”
“Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.”
“I don't yearn to be a child again.”
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency....”

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