Humans quotes

10 quotes

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Noam Chomsky

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Robert Greene

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

Madeleine Albright

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Jeff Bezos

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Noam Chomsky

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Mark Twain

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Carl Sagan

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

Marilyn Monroe

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Walt Disney