Richard Flanagan Quotes

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

I'm a human being before anything else.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

I describe myself as a human being.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There were human beings aboard the Mayflower, not merely ancestors.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

I think that when you're exploring themes of humanity and what defines a hero and what makes us our best self and what makes us our worst self, you're going to stumble into territories of societal issues and that kind of thing. Sometimes you have accidents where you're not trying, but then the opportunity just presents itself. and you lean into it.

Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

People are always separable.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

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

Can you tell the difference between them?

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

There's no victory-condition for being human.