Homo Quotes: top 94 famous quotes about Homo

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Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer. — Yuval Noah Harari

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me. — Terence

We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens. — John Fowles

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. — Cal Thomas

[ ... ] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family. — Henry Makow

If human is capable of conducting genocide,
no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. — Toba Beta

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay. — Aidan Chambers

Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. — Dana Gould

Homo Cannot Erectus — Adham T. Fusama

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis. — Shakira

Homo sapiens," "homo faber" ... yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans. — Alexander Schmemann

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. — Henry Rollins

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis ... surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H.L. Mencken

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try. — Nikki Giovanni

I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me. — David Haye

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens. — Ray Comfort

Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked? — David Sedaris

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it's too homo for them to handle. — Megan McCafferty

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me. — Terence

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things. — Mark O'Connell

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality. — Alex Sanchez

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living. — Will Herberg

Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification. — Carl Zimmer

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra

The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to. — Graeme Simsion

It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age! — S.J. Cameron

Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses? — William Lindsay Gresham

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans". — Ambrose Bierce

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. — Kenneth Oakley

Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition. — Alan F. Dixson

Christ is "truly God and truly man" (Vera Deus, vera homo). — R.C. Sproul

Homo is a common name to all men. — William Shakespeare

Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see — Svetlana Alexievich

the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer. All — Yuval Noah Harari

we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer be Homo sapiens. Bionic — Yuval Noah Harari

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. — Patricia Marx

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well. — John Chaffee

Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting ... — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens. — P.D. James

We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom? — Jeanette Winterson

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences. — Estelle Ramey

Homo Sapiens and their guns. — Jack Kirby

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(Wes Jackson calls our species "homo the homogenizer.") — Michael Pollan

Man is a wolf to man.
[Lat., Homo homini lupus.] — Plautus

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis? — Bertrand Russell

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens — Katherine Applegate

The extinction of the Australian megafauna was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet. — Yuval Noah Harari

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be. — Steven Pinker

Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause. — David Brin

This sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really. — James Rollins

The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves. — Geoffrey Gorer

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to. — Saul Bellow

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. — Natalie Angier

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? — Sigmund Freud

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. — Henry Rollins

Here's the bottom line. I don't care if it was Kinko the Klown or a guy in an Uncle Sam suit on stilts or Hubert the Happy Homo. If — Stephen King

It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before. — Gregory Benford

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson

You screamin' 'no homo', but that's so homo
Such a no-no, please swallow the .44 — Reks

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges

We are, after all, homo economicus. — Charles Stross

The man is either mad or his is making verses.
[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace

An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] — Martial

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. — Eric Idle

Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt. — Dennis Miller

Intelligent design becomes the basic principle of life? Homo sapiens is replaced by superhumans? — Yuval Noah Harari

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. — Henry Fairfield Osborn

The most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens. — David Quammen

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning. — William Glasser

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man. — Stephen Baxter

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done. — George Weigel

I wouldn't miss this fake-homo show for all the Gucci Shoes on Rodeo Drive. — River Jaymes

Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus. — Yuval Noah Harari

Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap. — William Gibson

Then again. Maybe the simple diagnosis of either hetero or homo is misleading. Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable. — David Levithan

We're all homos. Homo sapiens. — Michael Scott

Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then? — Yuval Noah Harari

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. — Jock Sturges

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. — Ambrose Bierce

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most. — John Fowles

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit? — Richard Wilbur

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. — Robert A. Heinlein

--What's going on in there?
--Let me see.
--Some kind of homo grappling shit. — Yusaku Hanakuma

And I'm platonically in love with you."
"That was literally the boy-girl version of 'no homo', but I appreciate the sentiment. — Alice Oseman

There are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men. — Letitia Baldrige

I'm glad I was cute and grammatical. I think you're cute and grammatical, too. — Becky Albertalli

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. — Yuval Noah Harari