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Quotes About Humans

All nature is full of hatred for humans. I don't think man has any friends among plants or animals. I suspect that even dogs and cats, those so-called best friends of man, are only pretending friendship to man in order to spy on his misdeeds, and they would betray him without blinking an eye the first chance they had. They know that Man is the worst of the beasts.
~ Jonas Mekas
No wonder American philosopher Jeff Lockwood observes, "If absence makes the heart grow fonder, humans should be head-over-heels in love with nature.
~ Jonathan Balcombe
It would be nice to believe that we humans were designed to love everyone unconditionally. Nice, but rather unlikely from an evolutionary perspective.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Surely there were other new and exciting methods. No species on earth outdoes humans for innovation, especially when it comes to stealing other people's shit.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.
~ Jonathan Morris
The crucial differentiation between humans and all other animals is that we make meanings, and the name we give to collective systems of meanings is culture.
~ Jonathan Sacks
If we can truly relate to God as God, in His full transcendence and majesty, then we can relate to humans as humans in all their fallibility.
~ Jonathan Sacks
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
~ Eric Schmidt
Twolegs are mousebrain
~ Erin Hunter
According to this thing I saw on the internet, cats and dogs use expressions on us that they don't use on each other. This being on account of the fact that we effectively co-evolved together. So unless sheep are susceptible to a look of long-suffering patience, I'm going to say that the one Ziggy gave me was reserved for humans.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Bears, it turns out, are a lot like humans. They form alliances with strangers, they make calculations about relative costs and benefits, they lay down rules and punish those who break them. They trade based on a clear system of reciprocity. They communicate using equal parts emotion, intention, and dependence on context-a combination that is essential for communication between strangers and in fact forms the basis for language.
~ Benjamin Kilham
Highly social animals like dogs and chimpanzees who live in small groups evolved to be more tolerant in subordinate roles. The fact that young bears behave more like young humans suggests common influences upon their social behaviour.
~ Benjamin Kilham
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
~ Vernor Vinge
I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.
~ Caroline Paul
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
~ Henry Rollins
At the end of the day, especially in retail, you've got humans serving humans. And really, the more engaged and happier the associates are, the happier our guests are. It's not complicated.
~ Mary Dillon
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
~ Naval Ravikant
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
~ Edward Albee
By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.
~ Glenn Gould
All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.
~ Chris Milk
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
~ Alan Furst
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
~ Eric Schmidt
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
~ Joan D. Vinge
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
~ Henry Selick