Ugly bags of mostly water. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e18: Home Soil, Microbrain’s assesses humans
You seem to find no tranquillity in anything. You struggle against the inevitable. You thrive on conflict. You are selfish yet you value loyalty. You are rash, quick to judge, slow to change. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e2: Where Silence Has Lease, Alien assesses humans
As a human I would have died of boredom. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e13: Deja Q
I was only trying to put a quick end to a miserable existence. ibid.
Perhaps there is a residue of humanity in Q after all. ibid. Picard
I have often wished to be human. I study people carefully, in order to more closely approximate human behaviour ... But I cannot take pride in my abilities. I cannot take pleasure in my accomplishments ... I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert. Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e11: Hero Worship
That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here: not to conquer you with weapons or ideas, but to coexist and learn. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e1: Emissary ***** Sisko
They weren’t just stupid; they were violent, petty, bigoted and selfish. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e8: Little Green Men, Nog to Quark & Rom
Humans, all you care about is yourselves. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e11: Homefront, Quark
Humanoids are such tragic creatures. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e14: Chimera, Changeling
Humans! Ha, you’re not used to roughing it, are ya? Star Trek: Voyager s1e11: State of Flux, Neelix
When your Captain first approached us we suspected that an agreement with humans would be impossible to maintain. You are erratic, conflicted, disorganised. Every decision is debated, every action questioned, every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It would be your undoing. Star Trek: Voyager s4e1: Scorpion II
You will deny us the choice as you deny us now. You have imprisoned us in the name of humanity. Yet you will not grant us your most cherished human right. To choose our own fate. You are hypocritical. Manipulative. We don’t want to be what you are. Return us to the Collective. Star Trek: Voyager: The Gift s4e2, Seven of Nine
It must have been my humanity reasserting itself. I will correct the error. Star Trek: Voyager s4e5: Revulsion, Seven of Nine to Ensign Kim
You are an anomalous component: alone, disconnected, impossible to predict. Star Trek: Voyager s4e9: Year of Hell II, Annorax to Chakotay & Tom
Human beings we got to give them a break. We’re all mixed bags. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010 starring Michael Douglas & Shia LaBeouf & Josh Brolin & Carey Mulligan & Eli Wallach & Susan Sarandon & Frank Langella & Austin Pendleton & Sylvia Miles & Venessa Ferlito & Jason Clark et al, director Oliver Stone, Gekko to Winnie & Jacob
He [Bill Hicks] was disappointed in humanity in a way. And was angry because he wanted it to be better. And would talk about these outrages. Richard Belzer
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. Haile Selassie
When Tyler stopped travelling, he went back to England and kind of invented cultural anthropology. James Burke, Connections s2e18: Making Waves, BBC 1994
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfilment of his potentialities as a human being. Ashley Montagu
I am not an animal. I am a human being. The Elephant Man ***** 1980 starring John Hurt & Anthony Hopkins & Anne Bancroft & John Gielgud & Wendy Hiller & Freddie Jones & Dexter Fletcher & Michael Elphick & Hannah Gordon & Helen Ryan & John Standing & Lesley Dunlop & Phoebe Nicholls & Morgan Sheppard & Kenny Baker et al, director David Lynch
Beyond Earth’s atmosphere life is impossible. Exposed to the vacuum of space you’d be unconscious within twelve seconds. Brian Cox, Human Universe BBC 2014
The International Space Station has been permanently occupied. ibid.
As far as we know we humans are unique in the universe. ibid.
At its peak Petra had a population of 30,000. ibid.
Each one of us is made from mere matter. Yet we are matter with curiosity ... Why are we here? Brian Cox, Human Universe II: Why Are We Here?
We appear to live on a perfect planet in a perfect universe. It feels as if it’s made for us. The Earth orbits at just the right distance around just the right star with the temperatures on its surface to be just right for liquid water to exist. ibid.
We live in a universe that’s expanding at just the right rate. ibid.
‘The gods are later than creation.’ ibid. Vadic verse
Are we a lone island of life lost in a vast galaxy? Brian Cox, Human Universe III: Are We Alone?
Red Dwarfs are by far the most numerous stars in our galaxy. ibid.
There are ten billion inhabitable worlds out there in the Milky Way Galaxy. ibid.
The question of how often Life spontaneously arises on a planet. ibid.
The silence persists; we remain alone ... We are unique. ibid.
Every human life has to start somewhere, a place in Space and Time. Brian Cox, Human Universe IV: A Place in Space and Time
The Milky Way is a disc of between two and four hundred billion stars reaching out in giant spiral arms. ibid.
Our inquisitive minds began to develop models of the universe. Brian Cox, Human Universe: What is Our Future? V
Imagine a future without fear. Where pain is a distant memory. For some. What if we lived in a world where the human species had changed – where technology made us all-seeing, invincible, fearless, in short, superhuman? Futurescope with James Woods: How to be a Superhuman, Discovery 2014
Invisibility on demand means our sight can no longer be trusted. ibid.
We’ve now got to the point in human history where for the first time we are going to hold in our hands the set of instructions to make a human being. Dr John Sulston, UK Sanger Centre
We humans think and move like members of a herd in more ways than we might realise. Human Swarm, Channel 4 2013
Temperature can make us not as individuals but as a collective mass, a human swarm. ibid.
When the temperature drops by a few degrees our food consumption goes up. ibid.
Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is. What blindness. What an intelligent leadership. A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. A peril by an orgy of greed and brutality. The time must come, my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Lost Horizon 1937 ***** starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt & H B Warner & Sam Jaffe & John Howard & Edward Everett Horton & Thomas Mitchell & Margo & Isabel Jewell & David Clyde & David Torrence et al, director Frank Capra, High Lama to Conway
Only in the state does man have a rational existence ... Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth and spiritual reality he possesses are his solely by virtue of the state. W E F Hagel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History