History Quotes / HumansAreWarriors

1961 AD: One man decides that we will go to the moon, despite much of the technology to do so not even existing yet. Just eight years later, two humans stand on the surface of the moon and look back upon the Earth.\\

->''"Humans were helpless-looking things with no magic, with no fangs or talons, no scales or fiery breath, no monstrous strength, no hooves, horns, or wings, nothing but soft helpless monkey things. Soft helpless monkey things who leveled their own cities with a push of a button when they got angry enough."''

->''"I am a Man of Misrayim, and there is no landing I cannot walk away from!"'' (after crashing into the Angel of Death)
-->-- '''Jeb''', ''Fanfic/LeftBeyond''

->The report was succinct, technical, efficient and impossible. A chain of orbital defense satellites destroyed, a ground installation smashed, a [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Hunter Broodship]] destroyed, several thousand Hunters killed. High-Value Target neutralized, intelligence recovered and critical infrastructure destroyed. The Crzlrfek system completely neutralized as an Alliance base of operations.\\
Cost: Two humans ''wounded.''
-->-- ''[[Literature/TheJenkinsverse The Deathworlders]]''

->"Attention, all troops. The Sontarans might think of us as primitive, as does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals. But no more. From this point on, it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back, and we show them. We show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do."
-->-- '''Colonel Mace''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Poison Sky"

->''Farsight spooled through the latest footage from Via’mesh’la. The tau’s stranglehold on the war zone had been broken by an infantry charge. Not by Space Marines, but by simple gue’la infantry. Some of them had made it to close quarters, despite the overlapping fire lanes of the cadre defending the ridge.''
->''Stony-faced, Farsight watched drone footage of human troopers charging through a killing field of pulse rifle fire and orbital bombardments. Their rough, barking orders were becoming familiar sounds to him, the simple war cries those of a backwards tribe grown impossibly numerous. Perhaps one in six of the human attackers survived to gain the ridge. Those who made it through set about themselves with their primitive spear-like rifles as if gripped by a rabid frenzy, stabbing and slashing to wreak absolute ruin on the fire warriors behind the tidewall.''
->''What a waste, thought Farsight. After the harrowing ten-year crusade against the orks of Arkunasha, his personal cadre trained in close-quarters doctrine every dawn, but the rest of the tau military still considered it a distraction from the true art of war. At Via’mesh’la they had paid the price.''
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

'''Vexxarr:''' Ah yes, Valentine's Day...psychological warfare.

-->--Anonymous Imageboard poster

->Human beings are scary. We breathe a corrosive gas, drink one of the most potent solvents. Our preferred method of hunting was persistence hunting, where we chased animals until their body simply gave up and died. We can eat just about anything we find, which means that we don't need to stop for food when chasing our prey. If we can't find food, that's fine. Our body will simply begin to eat itself so that we don't have to stop chasing our prey. We walk upright, we sweat, we don't have much body hair, which allows us to radiate away our body heat. This means that excessive time or extreme environment won't stop our hunts. If the animal fights back against us, we can take massive damage to our extremities and lose half our blood and still live. [[{{Determinator}} Our entire existence is owed to persistence, endurance, and determination. When we put ourselves to a task, it gets done, period.]] And this instinct is still affecting us today.

->332 BC: UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat hits a stalemate with the fortified island city of Tyre. Instead of going back defeated, he builds a kilometer long bridge in order to raze the city.

->49 BC: UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, after defeating the Gauls and invading Britain, turns a political fight into a civil war by invading Italy with only a single legion. He eventually becomes dictator starting a world superpower whose engineering feats are only recently being broken.

->1804 AD: [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte A charismatic French general]] declares himself Emperor and sets off to conquer much of mainland Europe. He is captured, exiled, and then escapes. The soldiers sent to recapture him instead lay down their arms and join him.

->1961 AD: One man decides that we will go to the moon, despite much of the technology to do so not even existing yet. Just eight years later, two humans stand on the surface of the moon and look back upon the Earth.

->200 years ago, we didn't have railroads. 100 years ago, we didn't have airplanes. 50 years ago, we didn't have spaceflight. 25 years ago we didn't have the Internet. We've already inherited the Earth and soon we WILL inherit the stars and anyone or anything that stands in our way will be eliminated one way or another.
-->--[[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rrzax/reddit_im_drunk_and_easily_impressed_what_is_the/c48c5gq reasonably_plausible on Reddit]]

->''"[[Creator/StephenieMeyer Meyer]] thinks that humans are limited to two types of weapons: {{guns|AreUseless}} and slow-moving bombs. Oh, Meyer. You silly, silly bitch. There is one thing that we humans have been consistently good at since we first picked up a rock and looked speculatively at that turtle hiding smugly inside of its shell:\\
We’re really, '''really''' good at figuring out how to kill things."''
-->--'''Blog/DasSporking''' on the epilogue of ''Literature/BreakingDawn''

->'''Cell''': Come on, buddy. You can't be serious! With your power level! You're no android, you're no Namekian, and you're certainly no Super Saiyan! You're just ''[[PunyEarthlings human.]]''
->'''Tienshinhan''': Well you know what? ''F*CK'' power levels! ''F*CK'' Super Saiyans! And ''FUCK! YOU!'' '''''[[CallingYourAttacks SHIN... KIKOHO!]]'''''
->'''Cell''': Oh, that's adorab- ''(gets hit and driven into the ground)'' ''-SHIIIIIIIT!''
-->--''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->Any [[KillerRobot violence committed by a machine?]]\\
[[AiIsACrapshoot A glitch, an anomaly, a programming error]].\\
Any violence committed by a man?\\
Perfectly natural.
-->-- '''WebVideo/{{SsethTzeentach}}''''s video description on ''VideoGame/{{SYNTHETIK}}''

->War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
-->-- Heraclitus

->Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial and violent, just like our simian ancestors. There are people who insist this isn’t so, who insist that they could never kill anyone, but they invariably add a telling caveat: [[BewareTheNiceOnes “Unless, of course, a person tried to harm someone I love.”]] So the resource of violence is in everyone; all that changes is our view of the justification.
-->-- Gavin De Becker "The Gift Of Fear"

-->-- ''Film/PacificRim''

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->Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial ->and violent, just like our simian ancestors. There are people who insist this isn’t so, who insist that they could ->never kill anyone, but they invariably add a telling caveat: [[BewareTheNiceOnes “Unless, of course, aperson tried ->to harm someone I love.”]] So the resource of violence is in everyone; all that changes is our view of the ->justification.

->Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial ->and violent, just like our simian ancestors. There are people who insist this isn’t so, who insist that they could ->never kill anyone, but they invariably add a telling caveat: [[BewareTheNiceOnes “Unless, of course, aperson tried ->to harm someone I love.” So the resource of violence is in everyone; all that changes is our view of the ->justification.

->332 BC: Alexander the Great hits a stalemate with the fortified island city of Tyre. Instead of going back defeated, he builds a kilometer long bridge in order to raze the city.

->49 BC: Cesar, after defeating the Gauls and invading Britain, turns a political fight into a civil war by invading Italy with only a single legion. He eventually becomes dictator starting a world superpower whose engineering feats are only recently being broken.

->1804 AD: A charismatic French general declares himself Emperor and sets off to conquer much of mainland Europe. He is captured, exiled, and then escapes. The soldiers sent to recapture him instead lay down their arms and join him.

-->-- ''[[WebOriginal/TheJenkinsverse The Deathworlders]]''

->Soon after the departure of Felugund the other men of whom Bëor had spoken came also into Beleriand. First came the Haladin; but meeting the unfriendship of the Green-elves they turned North and dwelt in Thargelion in the country of Caranthir of Fëanor: there for a time they had peace, and the people of Caranthir paid little heed to them. In the next year Marach led his people over the mountains; they were a tall and warlike folk and the Elves of Osirian hid themselvdes and did not waylay them. But Marach, hearing that the people of Bëor were dwelling in a green and fertile land, came down and settled in the country south and east of the dwellings of Baran son of Bëor. And there was friendship between those peoples.
-->-- ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''

->''"I am a Man of Misrayim, and there is no landing I cannot walk awayfrom!"'' (after crashing into the Angel of Death)