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Quotes About Humans

You know humans have a bad reputation. Among the rest of us. "I've heard," Wilson said. That you're deceptive. That you'll go against your contracts and treaties. That you're terrified of all of us and your way of solving that problem is trying to destroy us all. "But on the bright side, we all have lovely singing voices," Wilson said.
~ John Scalzi
Humans are also social creatures. Even the introverts among them crave interaction—not necessarily with other humans, but rather with the residue and output of those other humans: books and music and art, to be contemplated and perhaps even created.
~ John Scalzi
Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.
~ John Steinbeck
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
~ Duncan Jones
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
~ Maynard James Keenan
All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.
~ Van Jones
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
~ Victor Salva
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
They chose their battleground: the wasteland on the riverbank, where Julian had first been attacked. They chose their people: seven humans, seven sidhe, with Guardians to protect them. They chose their configuration: Robert and Liesel with Falcon and Shard on the inner circle, and the remaining ten on the outer.
~ Marie Brennan
God didn't create the fear, fear created the God.God didn't create humans, Humans created the God because of their fear.
~ Unknown
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
~ Douglas Adams
I was dealing with humans. What could go wrong?
~ Unknown
Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.
~ Mark Bittman
In an age when whales were judged by how easy it was to render them into oil, or grind them into pet food and fertilizer, killer whales were a problem even if they weren't killing humans.
~ Unknown
Rather than a story of sin, Genesis 2–3 explicitly relates a transferal of the knowledge of good and evil from the deity to the humans.
~ Unknown
What perfect timing. Amidst all the turmoil caused by humans God sends his/her animal messengers to soothe our troubled minds.
~ Mark Townsend
Roaches should never trust humans. We're all doomed.
~ Unknown
There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.
~ Kenneth Lacovara
If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
~ Markus Zusak