„As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.“

— Jane Goodall

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„The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.“
— Thomas Sowell
„We were at the age when a friend's conversation seems like oneself talking, when one shares a life in common the way I still think, bachelor though I am, some married couples are able to live.“
— Cesare Pavese
„I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.“
— Herodotus
„Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.“
— Harper Lee
„My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.“
— Peter Handke