Over and over, Wilder shows us mankind behaving badly, or using one another as props and pawns, or racing into follies from which there is no escape, and still, like sheep to the shearer, we come back for more.
One is that Beckett gives us mankind all bewildered and mixed up, waiting for some kind of solution to the problem of the world we live in.
The musician Jarvis Cocker, in the Mail on Sunday, chose it as his favourite: "The mark of a great book is that it not only alters the way you see the world, it also casts the past in a different light... Harari shows us where mankind is headed in a clear-sighted and accessible manner".
"It reminds us that mankind lives in a minor solar system at the edge of a suburban galaxy, is in his physical frame scarcely distinguishable from the creatures that surround him, and – most of all – that he still understands rather little about his place in nature".
"The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind!
GENEVA--Easter tells us of mankind's triumph over injustice; Passover of mankind's liberation from dictatorship.
She has ignited compassion in hearts everywhere and reminded us that mankind is basically good and kind.
It's the ultimate "Yes we can" show, telling us that mankind can take on the whole universe, endure and survive, without becoming destructive conquerors.
Napoleon Bonaparte was no great lover of physicians: ' [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.' Let us hope that this is not the case in our long-stay patients!
But these gods tend to negotiate between us humans and the gods, too, and often the lies they tell, and the tricks they play, ultimately benefit mankind.
Alien, in its gradual, threatening way, took us back to the idea of some eternal war between us and them, mankind and the black hole.
