Terrible Human Beings Quotes

#1. I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Ron Eldard

#2. There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

George R R Martin

#3. There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.

Kyle Minor

#4. We judge people by our own standards of happiness ... What makes you happy might not make that woman over there happy. But human beings have a terrible habit of thinking they know what's best for each other.

Priscilla Glenn

#5. People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

Thomas Gibson

#6. People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel ... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

Eudora Welty

#7. We are using our resources to export food from countries where human beings die of starvation, and this we do in order to feed animals who live terrible lives, and we then kill these animals and eat their meat in amounts that raise our mortality risk significantly.

Magnus Vinding

#8. Human beings make terrible gods.

Nnedi Okorafor

#9. It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. There are human beings in this world who are soft enough to feel every terrible thing that happens so deeply. And are still brave enough to remain constant and suffer for those who need them the most. Even the stars blink in awe of the gleam of their souls.

Nikita Gill

#11. All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Stefan Zweig

#12. Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

Theodor Adorno

#13. It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

Nina Berkhout

#14. It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Human beings are terrible things, Arthur.

David Burr Gerrard

#16. Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

Richard Holloway

#17. He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.

Alice Hoffman

#18. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.

James Weldon Johnson