Jordan Peele Quotes

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

In truth, I do not recollect in all the animal kingdom a single species but man which is eternally and systematically engaged in the destruction of its own species.

I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.

War makes monsters out of men.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I think the human species is very suicidal.

People are more twisted than people think.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?