2,158 Quotes About Humans

  • Author Christina Engela
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    Humans, on the whole, are intelligent and resourceful and always have been. If our species has been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that our ancestors could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?

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  • Author Valeria Luiselli
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    Why is it that looking through someone's things is always somehow so sad and also endearing, as if the deep fragility of their person becomes exposed in their absence, through their belongings?

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  • Author Octavia E. Butler
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    I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

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  • Author Sarah Jude
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    What predators is the worst?" Sheriff didn't have to answer. I already knew. The worst predators of all were humans.

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  • Author Sarah Jude
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    What predator is the worst?" Sheriff didn't have to answer. I already knew. The worst predators of all were humans.

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  • Author Brien Pittman
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    It is healthy and wise to believe there exist goodness in humans, it is equally healthy and wise to realize there are monsters in the world pretending to be humans, and these monsters have pretended for so long, they actually believe they are human. Some times it is difficult to distinguish the difference.

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