Humans Quotes

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was no...

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really abou...

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to bu...

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front o...

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable tha...

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelli...

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its statio...

Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings ha...

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human...

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing'...

It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is conc...

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in ...

Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders ...

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has...

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that did...

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself -...

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is co...

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act li...

The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!“Who we are,” he said, underlining each word...

But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually devel...

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it w...

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. B...

We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regre...

Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of huma...

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

Humans were always surprising me.

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those bel...

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really hum...

This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! ...

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstin...

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and r...

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what ...

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive ...

Humans need fantasy to be human.

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern...

That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to ...

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence ...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought...

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperc...

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on...

Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental i...

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed a...

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society...

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just ...

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's t...

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the pe...

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and st...

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Human beings are by nature political animals

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them...

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of...

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest...

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every livin...

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been pa...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite ca...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our s...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shad...

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?