“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
“Valentine!""You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names.""What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name."- Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes)”
“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .”
“The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.”