Top 30 Human Species Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Human Species Quotes from famous people such as Andreas Gursky, Christopher Hitchens, Studs Terkel, Michael Frome, J. M. Coetzee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the hum

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Andreas Gursky
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher Hitchens
I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’ That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That’s very realistic.
Studs Terkel
In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.
Michael Frome
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. Coetzee
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
Joseph Rotblat
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly… this was the way to go in the human species.
Robert Edwards
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you’d think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.
Francis Spufford
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
Buzz Aldrin
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Alan Lomax
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
Georges Bataille
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
Mikhail Gorbachev
I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
John Hughes
The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.
David Grinspoon
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Alison Gopnik
Poetry isn’t just different from prose, it’s more important for the human species.
Joseph Brodsky
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai Stevenson I
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens
‘Humankind’ is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.
Timothy Morton
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In ‘Kid vs. Squid,’ the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ what’s at stake is the survival of the human species.
Greg van Eekhout
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft
The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
Fidel Castro
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won’t sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists – for us, not mice or wasps – because we go on believing in it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Larry Niven
When you have children, you almost feel like you’ve made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It’s your way of passing the baton.
Chris de Burgh
I absolutely don’t think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
Daniel H. Wilson
All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids – it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
Peter Diamandis
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we’ve invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
David Gerrold