Humans Quotes

Humans are almost always lonely.

Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love pers...

The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one ...

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has ...

Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -...

Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick ...

It's just men and ants. There's the ants builds their cities,live their lives, have wars, revolution...

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human be...

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways b...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the...

He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but t...

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other h...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they none...

(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all ...

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, withou...

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone...

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birt...

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was no...

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: r...

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really abou...

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to bu...

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front o...

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable tha...

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelli...

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its statio...

Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings ha...

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human...

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing'...

It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is conc...

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in ...

Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders ...

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has...

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that did...

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself -...

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is co...

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act li...

The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!“Who we are,” he said, underlining each word...

But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually devel...

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it w...

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. B...

We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regre...

Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of huma...

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

Humans were always surprising me.

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those bel...

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really hum...

This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! ...

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstin...

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and r...

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what ...

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive ...

Humans need fantasy to be human.

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern...

That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to ...

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence ...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought...

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperc...