The only good human being is a dead one.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?[Quelle sagesse y a-t-il pour vous hors de l’humanité?]
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
We can only know that we know nothing. And that’s the highest degree of human wisdom.[Знать мы можем только то, что ничего не знаем. И это высшая степень человеческой премудрости.]
This inhuman place makes human monsters.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.[Любить человека дорогого можно человеческою любовью; но только врага можно любить любовью божескою.]
When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.
What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.
