Oh! that desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza177.

Chacun exige d'e"  tre innocent, a'   tout prix, me"  me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

-Camus, Albert
  La Chute (translated by Stuart Gilbert).

Thehumanrace, towhichsomanyof my readersbelong, has beenplaying atchildren'sgamesfromthebeginning, and will probablydoittill the end, which isa nuisancefor the few people who grow up.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Napoleon of Notting Hill, ch.1.

'Well, of course, people are only human,'said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women.'But it really does not seem much for them to be.'

-Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy
  A Family and a Fortune, ch.2.

   It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

-Congreve,William
  The Double Dealer, epistle dedicatory.

The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together† For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.

-Connolly,James
  Labour, Nationality, and Religion.

Humane, but not human.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
On Ezra Pound. Recalled on Cummings's death, 3 Sep1962.

[She] has several skins fewer than any other human being†a kind of psychological haemophilia, which is one reason why she writes so well, and why she is so vulnerable.

-Curran, Charles
Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.

'I was ruminating,'said Mr Pickwick,'on the strange mutability of human affairs.' 'Ah! I seeöin at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?' 'An observer of human nature, sir,'said Mr Pickwick.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.2.

Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Simon Tappertit. Barnaby Rudge, ch.4.

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Mr Guppy. Bleak House, ch.20.

All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

-Dryden,John
  MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.1^2.

For insight into human affairs I turn to stories and poems rather than to sociology. This is the result of my upbringing and background.Iamnot abletomakeuse of the wisdom of the sociologists because I do not speak their language.

-Dyson, FreemanJ(ohn)
  Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

The mother's yearning, thatcompletest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Adam Bede, ch.43.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.1.

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in historya plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. Those harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another, as wave follows upon wave; only one real fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations.Only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

-Fisher, H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens)
  History of Europe, introduction.

Porque alla¤   los espan‹  oles y las otras naciones†como tienen historias divinas y humanas, saben por ellas cua¤  ndo empezaron a reinar sus Reyes y los ajenos†todo esto y mucho ma¤  s saben por sus libros. Empero vosotros, que carece¤  is de ellos, Que¤   memoria tene¤  is de vuestras antiguallas?, Quie¤  n fue el primero de nuestros Incas? Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples' Kings began their reigns† Their books teach them all of this, and much more. But you, who have no books, what memories do you have of your ancient past? Who was our first Inca?

-Garcilaso de laVega, Inca
  Comentarios reales (TheRoyal Commentaries of Peru,1688), bk.1, ch.15.

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  Letter,12  Apr.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during whichthe conditionof thehumanrace was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.71.