Humans Quotes

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

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 to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.