Humans As Quotes

#1. It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

Brian Hare

#3. SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

Peter Singer

#5. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.

Edward Hirsch

#6. If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?

Carl Sagan

#7. Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.

A.D. Aliwat

#8. No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

John Scalzi

#10. Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Asse Sauga

#11. The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Stanislav Grof

#12. One of the things Ford Perfect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you've fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?

Douglas Adams

#13. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Nikki Giovanni

#14. There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.

Evette Davis

#16. Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.

Daniel H. Wilson

#17. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.

Larissa Ione

#18. The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

Yann Martel

#19. We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, studying dead languages, barbarian societies and impossible problems, and climbing high mountains without the aid of a safety harness.

Iain M. Banks

#21. I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town."
"Depends on the human," Claire said. "As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn't vote him to be in charge.

Rachel Caine

#22. Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

Bellamy Young

#23. I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Albert Brooks

#24. A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference.

Molly Friedenfeld

#25. Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.

Joe Hill

#26. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

#27. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

David Whyte

#28. Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

William Kamkwamba

#29. Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

Stuart J. Russell

#30. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

Linda Hogan

#31. If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Michael Specter

#32. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Anthony Burgess

#33. It sickens me that humans, who are capable of such goodness and love, can also be the tools of horrifying atrocities, as if possessed by the very demons they claim to hate and fear.

David Estes

#34. The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

William James

#35. We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

Tian Dayton

#36. Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stross

#37. Humans ain't blind about the future.
Most disable one of the senses because they feel daunted to look at it.
It is fear that makes them blind, at the same time feel challenged as well.

Toba Beta

#38. Royal jelly is the substance that worker bees produce and feed to the queen bee. Because the queen bee is the only bee that is fertile within the colony, laying around 2000 eggs per day, this substance is considered to help promote fertility in humans as well.

Sally Moran

#39. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Nicholas Kristof

#40. It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

Dalai Lama

#41. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Nicholas Kristof

#42. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

Robin Hobb

#43. Hexapodia as the key insight ... I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

Vernor Vinge

#44. Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is."
"I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained.
"He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.

Tamora Pierce

#45. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Peter Diamandis

#46. Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

John Lennox

#47. As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Alan Moore

#48. Trust is a word humans dangle in front of one another as a threat to get what they want. Trust only your heart.

Addison Moore

#49. We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

J.I. Packer

#50. Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Mark Twain

#51. It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger." Monty

Anne Bishop

#52. We as humans only learn through failure and if you fail along the way, take note of it then move on. This only gets easier as time goes on.

Kathy Stanton

#53. Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

Rebecca West

#54. Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.

David Graeber

#55. Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

Benjamin Clementine

#56. A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it.

Anurag Shourie

#57. Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Ilka Chase

#58. Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Orlando Bloom

#59. Humans, herself included, held no
interest for her except as living machines, mind-bogglingly intricate, beautiful systems that
somehow housed individuals not quite worthy of the miracle of their physical bodies.

Sherry Thomas

#60. If you watch what the birds and wild animals do, you can survive pretty much anywhere, because they know things humans have forgotten, such as what's poisonous and what's not, and what it means when things suddenly get too quiet, and where to hide when what it means is danger.

Jenny Wingfield

#61. Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

Richard Rohr

#62. Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

Pam Allyn

#63. As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.

Ellen Stofan

#64. Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

Edie Falco

#65. As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.

Matthew Carter

#66. If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

Friedrich Frobel

#67. Carbon dioxide is ... being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

Dana Rohrabacher

#68. As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

Dave Barry

#69. Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.

Nicola Yoon

#70. Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.

James Redfield

#71. The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.

Steven Magee

#72. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Nenia Campbell

#73. I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

James Lovelock

#74. Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

Jimmy Wales

#75. Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#76. We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.

Rachel Cohn

#77. As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Nash Grier

#78. I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Kenneth Oppel

#79. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

Fannie Flagg

#80. We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

Demi Lovato

#81. I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

Allison Williams

#82. Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.

Frank Herbert

#83. The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Steve Jobs

#84. The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alanis Morissette

#85. Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

Scott Cunningham

#86. I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Nicole Kidman

#87. Humans do have authority over creation - but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.

Richard A. Young

#88. When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

George Bernard Shaw

#89. The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.

Markus Zusak

#90. There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

Jamie Lidell

#91. Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!

Keanu Reeves

#92. They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development. But

Bill Bryson

#93. If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals ... We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

Erich Fromm

#94. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Susan Block

#95. This isn't a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We're not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni)
Well, aren't you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#96. I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

Philippe Starck

#97. We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Jane Goodall

#98. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Carl Sagan

#99. Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Ron Paul

#100. I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

Billy Bob Thornton