Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
Breakup, Grief & CondolenceAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixAs 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.
Greed, MoneyAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneMankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Weapons, Nuclear WeaponsAlbert EinsteinMostly, 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 Green Mile, by John CoffeyThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Criminal MindsJoseph ConradThe 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.
CreationH. P. Lovecraft in The Call of CthulhuHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Desire, Knowledge, Feelings & EmotionsPlatonTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Universe, FoolishnessAlbert Einstein"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.
Angels, AppearanceFynn in Mister God, This is AnnaIf 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.
Gratitude, Animals, DogsMark TwainIn this world, there are very few people who actually trust each other.
Light Yagami in Death NoteI 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 PoeWe 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 ThemSometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.
Morality & EthicsKishou Arima in Tokyo GhoulPeople may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention!
UnknownBaldridge: "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.
MaskenOscar WildeYou 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 GandhiI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonIt seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.
Meeting PeopleRudolfo AnayaI don't care what people think. People are stupid.
Charles BarkleyThe older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
AnimalsChuck JonesHuman beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
FoolishnessDean KoontzTragedy either makes people appreciate their fellow men, or fear them.
Seth Wright in Designated Survivor, Season 1 Episode 2I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
AnimalsDoris DayNot 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.
BrainDownsizing, by Dr. Jorgen AsbjørnsenThere's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.
Conor OberstTools don't let you down. People do.
Happy Quinn in Scorpion, Season 1Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.
The Elder Scrolls - 4 - Oblivion, by Uriel SeptimNinety-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 ZoneOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Weapons, Science, Morality & EthicsMartin Luther KingThe public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Knowledge, CuriosityOscar WildeThere is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.
Animals, Conservation & Environment ProtectionHerman Melville in Moby-DickHumanity is the architect of its own extinction.
Bel'Veth, the Empress of the Void in League of LegendsEverybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
Tolerance, HatredElvis PresleyThe human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
Michael PalinMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
George Orwell in Animal FarmPleakley: "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.
MushroomsUnknownTypical. Selfish. You think like a human.
Princess Mononoke, by MoroEverything dependent on human action is liable to abuse.
John TylerHuman nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
EmpathySteven Pinker