Humans Quotes

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

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

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

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.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

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.

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.

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

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

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.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.