The best Quotes and Sayings about Humanity (Page 2)

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.

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.

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

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

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.

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.

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.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

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.

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.