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Quotes About Human

Miki said, "That's not good." See, that? That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable.
~ Martha Wells
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.
~ Martha Wells
you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
~ Martha Wells
Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.
~ Martha Wells
It was the logical choice, it was the obvious choice, and I would still rather peel my human skin off than do it. I was going to have to do it.
~ Martha Wells
We made it outside to the pedestrian plaza and I asked her, "Do you need a medic?" I thought she might be sick. If I was a human and I'd had to be in the pavilion with all those other humans for the past two and a half hours, I'd be sick.
~ Martha Wells
Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you're all right. Because you need me. I don't know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.
~ Martha Wells
I wanted to pick it up and have an emotion over it like a stupid human.
~ Martha Wells
Human security had literally just noticed that something had tried to steal their client's head.
~ Martha Wells
I suggested Target Four from the Lalow, who had all the characteristics of a human who could be talked into doing anything.
~ Martha Wells
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.
~ Martha Wells
And botched was putting it mildly; it looked like a bad human medic had jammed it in with their toes.
~ Martha Wells
My human parts were experiencing a cold prickling that wasn't comfortable. This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn't help.
~ Martha Wells
Yes, I'm fine, I'd sent her over the feed. It's a good thing I don't bleed like a human because hostile marine fauna was about all this situation needed. I've got everything under fucking control, okay. "No, it says it's fine," I heard her relaying to the others on our comm. "Well, yes, it's furious.")
~ Martha Wells
I'd watched family dramas before, but I'd never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.)
~ Martha Wells
Most of all, community land contributions are both ethical and economically fair because they allow people to keep the fruits of their labour. Land contributions charge people for what they take away from other human beings, not for the value they provide through their labour and their provision of capital goods.
~ Unknown
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
~ Martin Amis
When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human
~ Martin Buber
There are times of ripening when the true element of the human spirit, held down and buried, grows ready underground with such pressure and such tension that it merely waits to be touched by one who will touch it -- and then erupts.
~ Martin Buber
The world is not divine sport; it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world; of man, of human persons, of you and of me.
~ Martin Buber
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..
~ Martin Buber
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
In the Enlightenment-type movements, leaders saw human reason progressively replacing the earlier appeal to the Bible or churchly authority.
~ Martin E. Marty