Quotes about humanity

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“I love Humanity but I hate humans”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

“Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.”

“Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.”

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

“I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.”

“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”

“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”

“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”

“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.”

“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”

“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”

“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”

“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”

“No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.”

“She's a sort of human vampire-bat”

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"

"Evil's afoot."

"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.”

“Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”

“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs…. We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”

“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”

“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”

“At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”

“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”

“Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.”

“Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.”

“There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?”

“Holly: Stay back human. You don't know what you're dealing with.”

“Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.”

“What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)”

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

“We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.”

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”

“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease”

“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”

“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.”

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

“Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.”

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”

“Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.”

“Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?”

“Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron)
Really? (Jaden)
Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)”

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”

“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”

“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”

“Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.”

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

“Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.”

“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.”

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

“Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.”

“You're my brother."

"Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.”

“Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn)
Happy for you, bonebag…It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik)
It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn)
I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik)”

“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.”

“A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”

“The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance”

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”

“There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.”

“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”

“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”

“Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.”

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”

“Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.”

“The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.”