“Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.”
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”
“If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”
“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class -- it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”