Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

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

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

We can not, we just must not, tolerate the sway of violent men among us. We must not permit men who are filled with hatred, and careless of innocent lives, to dominate our streets and fill our homes with fear.

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

Be not discouraged and remember, above all things, that you can have nothing to expect from the enemy [the Union]. They will have no mercy on you, for they are more merciless than wolves, and more rapacious.

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 denounce anyone, anyone held responsible for any act of violence perpetrated against any innocent lives. It is just unacceptable. It is, fundamentally, something that we all denounce.

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.