Quotes of: Humanness Keyword

Rocket: Koba say, Apes should hate humans. Caesar: Enough! From humans Koba learned hate. But nothing else.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

John Merrick: I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!

The Elephant Man

Leeloo: Everything you create, you use to destroy. Korben Dallas: Yeah, we call it human nature.

The Fifth Element

Simon Bishop: Lucky for you... you're here for rock-bottom. You absolute horror of a human being.

As Good as It Gets

Lesra: [observing the prison] This is some place. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: This is no place, not for a human being or anybody. Never get used to a place like this.

The Hurricane

Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Old Lodge Skins: There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings.

Little Big Man

Old Lodge Skins: It makes my heart sad, a world without human beings has no center to it.

Little Big Man

Tony Hoyt: What the fuck is your problem, Taylor? She's a fucking dink! Chris Taylor: She's a fucking human being, man! Fuck you!

Platoon

Steven Jacobs: [to Will] I swear, you know everything about the human brain except the way it works.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?

A Streetcar Named Desire

Nader: I went there cause I have a sense of humanity. Hodjat: where was your sense of humanity when you were hitting her ?

A Separation

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

Adam Clarke

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Arthur Eddington

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any o...

Alan Greenspan

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

Alan Greenspan

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal...

Alexander Hamilton

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Christopher Gadsden

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

Eleanor Catton

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Earl Warren

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Jill McCorkle