Humans Quotes

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. (Gene Roddenberry)
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. View quote
Alice Walker
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. View quote
Robert Wagner
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. View quote
Thom Gunn
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. View quote
Art Garfunkel
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. View quote
Douglas Adams
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. View quote
Desmond Tutu
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. (Richard Dawkins)
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. View quote
Scott Adams
Dogs never bite me. Just humans. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. View quote
Ivo Andrić
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. View quote
Barack Obama
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. View quote
Nicholas Stern
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. View quote
Grace Hopper
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. (Michael Shermer)
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. View quote
Jane Goodall
Conscience is God's presence in humans. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg