"Nothing would stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at him like a wild man." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

 Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples.  Guns, Germs And Steel

“We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.” The Cherry Orchard

“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library