Kandid

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave