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Quotes About Humans

Anyone whose major concern is the sanctity of human life is in effect, by leaving population growth unchecked, ensuring death by famine. Nature is pitiless, and if humans will not themselves limit population then they will have it done for them.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.
~ Christopher Hitchens
So, from what you guys are saying, there are thousands of humans walking around without souls?' 'Millions, probably,' Charlie said. 'Maybe that explains the last election.
~ Christopher Moore
Vive Dios. ¿Si no por qué tomarse tanto trabajo para ser animales racionales? —Todos los grandes monos antropomorfos descienden de formas de vida inferiores, los hombres descienden de formas de vida inferiores, por tanto todos los hombres son grandes monos antropomorfos.
~ Umberto Eco
With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.
~ V.S. Ramachandran
She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans—it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.
~ Kristin Harmel
The NIGHT WORLD isn't a place.It's all around us.The creatures of the night world are beautiful and deadly and irresisible to humans.Your best friend could be one-so could your crush. The laws of the NIGHT WORLD are very clear:humans must never learn that night world exists.And members of Night World must never fall in love with a human.Violate the laws and the consequences are terrifying.
~ l.j smith
Ash stripped some of the papery purple bark off his yew stick. "And, you see, it's difficult because what I've always thought about humans-what I was always raised to think…" "I know what you've always thought," Mary-Lynnette said sharply. Thinking, vermin. But," Ash continued doggedly, "the thing is-and I know this is going to sound strange-that I seem to love you sort of desperately.
~ L.J. Smith
There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They wanted to punish them, and they wanted to be embraced by them. To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.
~ Laini Taylor
She never would, either, unless she earned it, and she knew too well how humans earned wishes. Chiefly: hunting, graverobbing, and murder.
~ Laini Taylor
The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with liking . Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But liking . . ." She shrugged elegantly.
~ Cassandra Clare
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular. "I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me?" Meliorn considered. "That might offer significant amusement.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's just communication with other humans, and I don't know why everyone is so afraid of it.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
In the realm of wounded humans, you're never going to have it all. Also, I should note that in my opinion, we're all wounded humans. The rest is just a matter of degree.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Koschei brought you to me. You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Sometimes, when a person has starved nearly to nothing, feeding them will hurt them worse than starving did, and push them the rest of the way over into dead.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Jesse Livermore, who declared in How to Trade in Stocks, "I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations. This is because markets are driven by humans—and human nature never changes" (Greenville: Traders Press, 1991, 96).
~ Gil Morales
The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.
~ Glen Duncan
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's War
God gave the angels wings and humans chocolate.
~ Author Unknown
Nature is now. Humans are a tangled mess of past, present, and future.
~ Terri Guillemets