Quotes About Humans

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

such a social-media environment; it is merely the most recent and most efficient way that humans have found to scratch a prehistoric itch. The compelling nature of social media, then, can be traced back in part to the evolution of the social brain, as

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

You humans ... always looking for a sensei, always handing over responsibility for your actions to a higher power.

Sabemos desde hace tiempo que los seres humanos sois brutales —dijo la elfa de los ojos verdes con el ceño fruncido—. En otras épocas, al menos teníais la excusa de la ignorancia.

The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's optimism had been eroded by his inability to cause the Dinee to accept the idea that God had a personal and special interest in humans.

P22 shuddered. He didn't like the sound of them humans at all. Mama was teaching them to hunt, but also to respect all the animals that lived in the forest, as each had the right to live and share nature's bounty. Why would you kill something if you didn't eat it? P22 didn't understand that at all.

No le interesa hablar con los humanos, porque las conversaciones que mantiene con los extraterrestres son mucho más interesantes e instructivas.

The humans had painted themselves as victims, dragons as barbaric monsters.

Because they don't want to seem vulnerable. Humans have a lot of this attitude called 'pride,' which is sort of like the satisfaction you get when your machine performs correctly. Pride makes them act contrary to the way they really feel.

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

To get there, we have to kill mellow-yellow, docile, unemotional, Lotus-sitting Jesus, drinking kombucha and finding us little humans mildly amusing while trying to clear his head of conflict and division, "contemplating all," as Tennyson put it.

There is a widespread belief that Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers cause profuse and irreversible bleeding in the humans they afflict. This is only rarely the case. So why has this belief taken hold?

I've always thought that because of all the polyester we humans encased ourselves in back in the 1970s, if a nuclear bomb had ever gone off, we might not have died but we would have definitely all been laminated.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

How strange. Humans always seem so much in control. Is it just a grand act, to fool both others and themselves?

All knowledge systems, from modern science to those embedded in the most ancient of creation myths, can be thought of as maps of reality. They are never just true or false. Perfect descriptions of reality are unattainable, unnecessary, and too costly for learning organisms, including humans.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Mrs. Horowitz said, It is inexcusable that humans think they can murder other animals because they murder themselves. I must tell you, I hate humans. They terrify me. They should, I continued. I interviewed Yehudi Menuhin the other day.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.

Just look at what happens to humans after they die-most of that is done by microbes.

I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.