Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.

Because they were idiots!

We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.

We truly are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten a very important part of our story.

...enfans de l'ignorance qui ont fait en tous tems le malheur des races humaines.

People are bloody ignorant apes.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. I hope it's not. We might get lucky.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

The absent no longer entered our thoughts. One spoke of them who knows what happened to them? but their fate was not on our minds. We were incapable of thinking. Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us. In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either.

"exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best,