Human nature quotes

“Why was I not made of stone - like thee?”

Charles Laughton - The Hunchback Quasimodo

“What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“It's funny how all living organisms are alike... when the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. Its own survival.”
Lois Smith - Dr. Iris Hineman

“Why does it have to be human or divine? Maybe human is divine.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Mark Shermin: Have people from your world been here before?
- Starman: Before yes. We are interested in your species.
- Mark Shermin: You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?
- Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Martin Smith - Mark Shermin
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves.”

Donald Pleasence - Loomis

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Rupert Evans - John Myers

“Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.”

Hugo Weaving - Agent Smith

“Infinite goodness is creating a being you know, in advance, is going to complain.”

Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“What does it take to change the essence of a man?”
Steven Seagal - Forrest Taft

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

David Morse - Alien

“- Davidge: You saved my life. Why?
- Drac: Maybe I need to look at another face... even one as ugly as yours.
- Davidge: So you still think humans are ugly?
- Drac: Compared to a Drac? Very ugly.”

Dennis Quaid - Davidge
Louis Gossett Jr. - Drac

“The more I learn what is a man, the more I want to be an animal.”
Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

“I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.”
Jimmi Simpson

“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.”
Shirley MacLaine

“It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack

“I am not a man! And I am not an animal.”
Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

“You're nothing more than a puppet whose strings were cut and then you wondered around for a little while thinking you were a real girl, but you're not. You're just a clever imitation, a facsimile. A rather troublesome one, at that.”

Iain Glen - Dr. Isaacs

“It's vanilla. He reacts to nothing. It's monstrous.”

Dominic West - Inspector Popil

“Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.”
Carla Gugino

“Everyone is born, but not everyone is born the same. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers, or candlestick makers. Some will only be really good at making Jell-O salad. One way or another, though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse.”
Danny DeVito - Narrator

“Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever.”
Rhea Perlman - Ruth

“A machine does not know what it feels like to be human. It can't understand the value of human life. Why should it be allowed to take one? To legislate over life and death, we need people who understand right from wrong.”
Zach Grenier - Senator Hubert Dreyfus

“Consciousness is nothing more than the processing of information.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Dr. Dennett Norton

“What do you think being human means? That's what we do. We make mistakes. Sometimes, out of those mistakes come the most amazing things.”
Mark Wahlberg - Cade Yeager