Human - Humanity Quotes

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too. (“The Outsiders’)

I don’t think Homo sapiens possesses any divine right to the top rung. If something is better than we are, then let it take the top rung.

It’s so hard to animate a human being.

I think that Mario became so popular because the actions in the Mario game are something that are innate to humans everywhere. Everyone is afraid of falling from a great height. If there is a gap that you have to cross, everyone is going to try to run to jump across the gap. These are […]

There are few policies potentially more disastrous for Canada than to tell all Canadians that they must be alike. There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an “all-Canadian” boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and […]

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.