The best Quotes by E. B. White

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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

John Coffey in The Green Mile

Humanity

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Humanity Criminal Minds

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

Humanity Appearance

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu

Humanity Creation

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Universe Humanity Foolishness

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

Charles Bukowski in Barfly

Humanity

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Eminem

Tolerance Kindness

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Pocahontas in Pocahontas

Tolerance

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God Tolerance

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

Tarzan

Tolerance

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

Tolerance

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Tolerance

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Fred Rogers

Love Tolerance

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

Ellen DeGeneres

Tolerance Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Cars

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f*ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Kurt Cobain

Tolerance

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

Emily Rhodes in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Tolerance Islam

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

Prejudice Atoms

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Rod Serling

Prejudice

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W. C. Fields

Prejudice

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Prejudice

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Prejudice

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Gore Vidal

Prejudice Superstition

Listen to the scientists! Listen to what the facts are!

Joe Biden - May 2020

Coronavirus Facts

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow

Opinions Conspiracy Theories Facts

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth Facts

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do if you're rational.

Ricky Gervais

Opinions Facts

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

Chris Berman

Opinions Facts

There is no such thing as "truth" or "lies" in this world; there never has been. There are only plain, hard facts. And yet, all beings who exist in this world acknowledge only those "facts" that are convenient to them, and take them to be the "truth".

Sōsuke Aizen in BLEACH

Facts

All the courage in the world cannot alter fact.

Niander Wallace in Blade Runner - 2049

Facts

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Jon Stewart

Journalism Facts

It'd be great if most opinions would take root in facts.

Jan Böhmermann in Fest & Flauschig

Opinions Conspiracy Theories Facts

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Julian Assange

Journalism Facts

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

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