Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ”

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone. ”

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit. ”

I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life. ”

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ”

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! ”

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. ”

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. ”

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. ”

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. ”