People

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• Human: a minor bipedal life form extant on a squalid little planet named Earth, in a backwater little-known galaxy; they are also known as 'Earthlings'. Humans are characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-entitlement, display a collective form of narcissistic personality disorder, and are generally regarded as the rednecks of the universe. Their problems appear to stem from a disingenuous form of business transaction they call 'land ownership.'
  • Derek Abbott, quoted in The Wickedictionary (2009).

• A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
  • Agent K in the film Men in Black

• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
  • Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42, by Stephen King

• I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
  • Robert Browning, English poet. A Soul’s Tragedy, Act II

• The people will live on.
  The learning and blundering people will live on.
  • Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), American poet. The People, Yes (1936)