Human nature quotes

“I suspect humans are the only animals that know the inevitability of their own deaths. Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot, so they invented hope.”
Jessie Buckley - Young Woman

“- Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing!
- Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think?”
Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“They seem to have more freedom, and to know more of peace and happiness, though they are only unreasoning animals, than we humans do. We who have the gift of understanding.”
August Diehl - Franz Jägerstätter

“We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.”
Joseph Schildkraut - Otto Frank

“Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.”
Bokeem Woodbine

“We're all dying. The world's just one big hospice with fresh air.”
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance

“I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.”
Peter Dinklage

“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
James Dean - Cal Trask

“- Barnaby: I was just thinking, it's queer about people.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: What about people?
- Barnaby: Through no fault of their own they get older.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Now, that's a profound remark.
- Barnaby: They get older, something happens to them.
- Mrs. Edwina Fulton: Are you referring to me Barnaby?
- Barnaby: Nah, I was...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cary Grant - Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Ginger Rogers - Mrs. Edwina Fulton

“My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer.”
Robert Walker - Bruno Antony

“Real human emotion is always interesting.”
Ed Skrein

“- Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
- Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt
Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer

“- Dr. Dolittle: I've come to the conclusion, with the possible exception of yourself, I have nothing in common with the human race.
- Matthew: You know, the trouble with you Doctor Dolittle, is you prefer animals to people.
- Dr. Dolittle: But, animals are so much more fun than people!”
Rex Harrison - Dr. John Dolittle
Anthony George Newley - Matthew Mugg

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption.”
Broderick Crawford - Willie Stark

“Human nature is eternal; therefore, one who follows his nature, keeps his original nature - in the end.”
Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister

“- Governor Kolp: So speech makes them human?
- Soldier: Speech makes them intelligent. And intelligence makes them not human, but humane.”

Severn Darden - Governor Kolp
Cal Wilson - Soldier

“- Frank Hamer: You ever think maybe there was something in Clyde... that made him steal that chicken in the first place?
- Henry Barrow: Maybe he was hungry. Maybe we were all hungry.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
William Sadler - Henry Barrow

“- Alita: Does it bother you, that I’m not completely human?
- Hugo: You are the most human person I have ever met.”
Rosa Salazar - Alita
Keean Johnson - Hugo

“We're not blind in spirit, Father. We're just human beings in a changing world.”

Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.”
David Harbour

“I am the jungle's eyes. I can see the past, and the future. It is I, Kaa, who witnessed the coming of man. And the jungle trying to survive. I saw chaos and darkness come to our lands. I saw the tiger, Shere Khan, killing man, and breaking the jungle's ancient law. And then, one fateful night, I saw the jungle place its hopes into the hands of a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cate Blanchett - Kaa

“It was a great plan, except for the Human Element. So many plans fail to take into account the Human Element. Mrs. Wilberforce will always be with us. A whole army couldn't take her out. There were only 5 of us. Even with 50, 60, or even a Whole Orchestra...”
Alec Guinness - Professor Marcus

“Wrinkles happen to human beings.”
Jennifer Aniston

“- Grischa Ljubov: You can't alter human nature.
- Boris Lermontov: No? I think you can do even better then that. You can ignore it!”
Léonide Massine - Ljubov
Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov

“Look around at the world. What do you see? A planet on the brink of collapse. Human beings are disposable. But man and symbiote combined, this is a new race, a new species... a higher lifeform.”
Riz Ahmed - Carlton Drake