Quotes and Sayings about Humanity

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Tools don't let you down. People do.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Humanity is the architect of its own extinction.

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

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

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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."

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.

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

Typical. Selfish. You think like a human.

Everything dependent on human action is liable to abuse.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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