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Quotes About Humans

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.
~ Scott Adams
He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
~ Gregory Maguire
He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
~ Gregory Maguire
Os homens são os únicos animais que se devotam diariamente a tornar os outros infelizes. É uma arte como outra qualquer. Seus virtuoses são chamados de altruístas
~ H. L. Mencken
The sea cows lived in the northern North Pacific and ate kelp. Humans exterminated sea cows in 1768.
~ Hal Whitehead
Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don't need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier. That was all. You do horrible things to survive. Anyone who believes that they are above that is delusional.
~ Harlan Coben
horrible instinctive part of you, is almost happy because now you will get a bite-and-a-half-size sliver of bread today instead of just a bite size. Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don't need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier.
~ Harlan Coben
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.
~ Alan Ball
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
~ Michael Leunig
Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.
~ Jim Cantrell
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
~ Richard Dawkins
Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?
~ Gregory Colbert
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
~ Richard Allen
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.
~ Gene Logsdon
Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!
~ The Rev
Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.
~ Cesar Millan
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
~ David Suzuki
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
~ Sherwood Smith
We had the 1st and 2nd world war, but if we gonna have the 3rd then God never gave wisdom to humans.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
~ Anne Carson
A Fur Person must be adopted by catly humans, tactful, delicate, respectful, indulgent; these are fairly rare, though not as rare as might be supposed.
~ May Sarton
This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the law, and the law is iron-bound and iron-clad and has no room in it for exceptions, then it's no longer a religion for humans, it's a religion for paper-pushers, painted saints, and marble statues.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It seems characteristic of the mind of man that the repression of what is natural to humans must be abhorred, but that what is natural to an infinitely more natural animal must be confined within the bounds of a reason peculiar only to men -- more peculiar sometimes than seems reasonable at all.
~ Beryl Markham
The primary means Satan employs to put volume to his accusing voice is by using no small list of willing humans. We are by nature a merciless, condemning lot. Far more would burn in eternal flames under our judgment than under that of a holy and righteous God. Know the truth so thoroughly and respond to conviction so readily that when accusations come, you can resist the devil, no matter whose voice grants him volume.
~ Beth Moore