Humankind Human Nature Quotes

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“There’s nothing more poisonous to a community than rumors and gossips. They taint the good character of those who effortlessly stand out. They provide mediocre individuals with a means to become relevant. They set in like gangrene and eat away at the sense of decency that differentiates humans from animals.”
― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope

“The innate problem of humankind is the inability to find equilibrium. Equanimity and equilibrium. These are what humans cannot seem to attain. Honour without soul will lead to destruction. Soul without honour will lead to destruction. But humans cannot seem to understand this. Or understand the state of equilibrium in anything at all! All honour and no passion is death. All passion and no honour is death. This is why people always die. Because everyone is always running to either extreme end of the pendulum. Everybody wants to be all black or all white. Who is a balanced man? Bring him to me! I will have found a unicorn!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.”
― Wes Adamson

“Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.”
― Robert Neil Fleischer, Alien Biography

“I am increasingly convinced that humankind’s best future lies within the power of the imagination, with knowledge following closely in step.”
― Duane Hewitt

“The cycles of humankind – sheep in control of sheep – were part of an ingenious process taught to errand boys that were in charge of supervising others like them. No pawn or errand boy knows the Truth. No sheep or shepherd managed to escape their fate.
As long as humankind exists, there will be betrayals and murders.”
― Robert Neil Flieischer

“„Well James,“ he said addressing me, as he does the officers in his command, informally, „it is true that many of our recent inventions will become much improved with use, and one day soon we may even have engines which do not break down with so much wheezing and groaning every two days of use, but I firmly believe that, while machines are perfectible, men are not.
Even a perfect machine must be run by men and, hence, subject to human errors. Take our situation as an example. Our machines keep us safe and warm, yet a simple mistake on our part, such as choosing one channel over another, could bring it all to naught and place us at the mercy of elemental nature. I believe we should work on the perfection of men before we worry overly about the perfection of his machines.”
― John Wilson, North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames

“The best proof that nothing will change in the world if humankind does not change is the development that takes place only technologically.”
― Lenfantvivant

“Unanimity is a naive glimpse of fools.”
― Marcese Maschietto