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"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
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"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."
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"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
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"It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive."
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"Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell."
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"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
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"This is what the Others have done to us. You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity."
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"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?"
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"Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!"
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"It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going."
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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."
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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."
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"I'm not interested in an imaginary world."
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"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."
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