Flawed Humans Quotes

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather than flawed humans muddling along like the rest of us.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

People are beautiful wrecks.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

I'm making movies about people as flawed as myself and the viewers. So if you just have a reptilian brain and live your life simply by reacting to things, my movies aren't going to work for you.

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.