Quotes and Sayings about Humanity

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Money

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

John Coffey in The Green Mile

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Criminal Minds

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

Appearance

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu

Creation

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Universe Foolishness

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

Charles Bukowski in Barfly

The difference from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.

Fynn in Mister God, This is Anna

Angels Appearance

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

Gratitude Animals Dogs

In this world, there are very few people who actually trust each other.

Light Yagami in Death Note

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

We are going to recapture my creatures before they get hurt. They are currently in an alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet: humans.

Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts - and Where to Find Them

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

Kishou Arima in Tokyo Ghoul

Morality

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Death

People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention!

Baldridge: "So Dr. Lightman just assumes you're a liar if you're a politician?"
Gillian Foster: "He assumes you're a liar if you're a Homo sapiens."

Gillian Foster in Lie To Me - Season 1 Episode 1

Lies

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Masken

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

Rudolfo Anaya

Meeting People

I don't care what people think. People are stupid.

Charles Barkley

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Chuck Jones

Animals

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Dean Koontz

Foolishness

Tragedy either makes people appreciate their fellow men, or fear them.

Seth Wright in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 2

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

Doris Day

Animals

Not a very successful species, these Homo Sapiens, even with such great intelligence. Barely 200,000 years. Alligator has survived 200 million years, with a brain the size of a walnut.

Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen in Downsizing

Brain

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Conor Oberst

I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

Alexia Fast

Rainbows

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Animals Dogs

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski

Genius

Tools don't let you down. People do.

Happy Quinn in Scorpion - Season 1

Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.

Uriel Septim in The Elder Scrolls - 4 - Oblivion

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Stephen King in The Dead Zone

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King

Weapons Science Morality Spirituality

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge Curiosity

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen

Body Brain

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Animals Conservation & Environment Protection

Humanity is the architect of its own extinction.

Bel'Veth, the Empress of the Void in League of Legends

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

Elvis Presley

Tolerance Hatred

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

Michael Palin

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Pleakley: "The mosquitoe's food of choice, primitive humanoid life forms, have colonies all over that planet."
Councilwoman: "Are they intelligent?"
Pleakley: "No, but they're very delicate. Every time an asteroid strikes their planet, they have to begin life all over. It's fascinating."

Pleakley in Lilo and Stitch

People are like mushrooms. First, you recognize the eye-catching ones, but they're often poisonous. You have to look longer for the good ones.

Mushrooms

If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it.

Hobbes in Calvin and Hobbes

Rainbows

Typical. Selfish. You think like a human.

Moro in Princess Mononoke

Everything dependent on human action is liable to abuse.

John Tyler

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Steven Pinker

Empathy

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Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Iron Flame

Body

Every person is a special thought of God, not only humanity as a whole.

Paul de Lagarde

Creation

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Marley & Me

Animals Dogs

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

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