Humans Quotes - Page 12

• Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Eight, Race, Government

  "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 232), 1991.

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• The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Dwarves

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• But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

  Kathy Acker

  Order, Battle, Alive

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.69, Grove Press

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• Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Survival, Shelter, Instinct

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• Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Had Enough, Opinion

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• It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

  Cassandra Clare

  World, Shapes, Bears

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

  James Frey

  Hate

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Ideas, Mind, Negative

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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• Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

  Jared Diamond

  Conflict, Human History

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.

  Karen Marie Moning

  World, Pawns, Immortal

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1019, Dell

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• But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.

  Jay-Z

  Real, Rap, Angel

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• Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

  George Orwell

  Pigs, Needs, Being There

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• But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

  Mary Balogh

  Children, Perfection, Choices

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Wicked”, p.333, Dell

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• All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Book, Dust

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• Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much—" His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. "My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . ." He sounded so devastated I didn't know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he looked like he needed a hug.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Fate, Pride

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• Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm—like a regular human—and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air.

  Rick Riordan

  Beach, Dad, Sea

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Eye, Effort, Littles

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• The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Joy, Done

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.396, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Nature, Looks, Ease

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Tragedy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

  Marian Keyes

  Depression, Space, People

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• In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?

  Rachel Vincent

  Want, Panic, Arches

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.131, Harlequin

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