The best Quotes and Sayings about Humanity (Page 2)

Tools don't let you down. People do.

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

"People are islands," she said. "They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years."

Realize we're nothing but sacks of meat, blood and some bone to keep it all standing.

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

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.

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

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

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

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.

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

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

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

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles.

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

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

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

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Earth's tombstone may be like:
"Everyone wanted the best - for themselves."

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

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

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

if you want to test a man's character, give him power.