David Mitchell Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

  David Mitchell

  Humanity, States, Organized

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.66, Random House Group

• Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

  David Mitchell

  Humanity, World, End Of The World

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.451, Random House Group

• If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Ocean, Race

• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

• Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

  David Mitchell

  Humanity, Originality, Specks

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.40, Random House

• I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

  David Mitchell

  Biblical, Civilization, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.487, Random House

• Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

  David Mitchell

  War, Mean, Humanity

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  David Mitchell

  Race, Humanity, Groups

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