I've met people like him. Garth nodded sagely. Men of customary inaction who can be spurred to sporadic excess. Such men often start ill-planned proj… - Sheri S. Tepper

Truth doesn’t enter in if they’ve decided something is doctrine, they’ll ignore all evidence to the contrary and lie to your face.

Life arises naturally; where life is, death is, joy is, pain is. Where joy and pain are, ecstasy and horror are, all part of the pattern. They occur as night and day occur on a whirling planet. They are not individually willed into being and shot at persons like arrows. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts…

We have a saying, “Where one lives, all live; where one suffers, all suffer.” One, in our language, includes all living things. In your language someone has said, “No man is an island,” which encompasses the concept but which, by mentioning only mankind, misses the point.