History Quotes / WhatMeasureisANonHuman

->'''Holt:''' ''[hustling her to the car]'' Goddamn abomination.\\
'''Lily:''' Abomination.\\

'''Lily:''' Abomination, from the Latin word ''abominari''. A thing that causes hatred or disgust.

-->-- '''Misaka Mikoto''' lamenting her and her [[CloningBlues sisters']] shared plight, ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''

-->-- '''Seijirou Kikuoka''', ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

->'''[[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AL]]:''' Before I try something, I would like to ask you a question. Am I a human? Or a machine?\\

'''Bart:''' Duh, Lisa///The Repugnoids have ''two eyes''...like ''us'', remember, genius? That makes them ''the good guys''!

'''Nero:''' Heh heh, you're very funny. What if your dear beasts were crushed before your eyes?

->'''Sam:''' That's stupid. Why would they want [religious texts]? Robots don't have souls. [[DoAndroidsDream Do they]]?\\
'''Max:''' I think that's what they're trying to find out.

->''"They say one ought to woo her kind, but I must say, I found force most efficacious. Oh, don't be fooled: she's not human. She's thousands of years old. She was created for this. This is her purpose: to inspire men like us."''

-->-- '''[[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

-->-- '''Erasmus Fry'' on Calliope TheMuse, ''Series/TheSandman2022'', "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E11ADreamOfAThousandCatsCalliope Calliope]]"

--> [[spoiler:'''Bob''']], ''VideoGame/TinyTank''

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->''Kyril was indifferent to what race a person was, [[DefiedTrope the only thing that mattered was their character]]. If any nonhumans had joined [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores the Black Dogs]] then they would die as well. He was very supportive of equal treatment between humans and nonhumans, men and women. If they all bled that means that they could be killed.''

'''Christie:''' [[DefiedTrope Good or bad, you're still a person. Or whatever you are]].
-->-- ''[[Franchise/CareBears Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation]]''

->''"I think it's because we want to live. Is there something wrong about that? We were all given life and raised. If the only thing we can do is eat people... how can we ever live correctly with a body like this? Even ghouls... even I want to live just like you guys!"''

->''[[WhatMeasureIsAMook "I've already gotten ten-thousand killed, and I'm still thinking of living a normal life?"]]''

->''"You want reality, Ben? Reality is, you are an android...[[MemeticMutation I AM A MAN!]]"''
-->-- ''ComicBook/SuperManAtEarthsEnd'', playing it [[NinetiesAntiHero absurdly straight.]]

--> '''Princess Sally Acorn''', ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]'' #73

->''"I know who I am, and I know what you are-- A '''mockery''' of life. This is not murder. It is the end of a terrible mistake."''

->'''Cyclops:''' To be honest, I thought we were sabotaging a tech weapon, here, doctor. I don't think any of us expected the target to have a pulse.
->'''Wraith:''' This beast has twenty-two hearths and no recognizable brainwaves, Cyclops. It's just a melting pot of genes, and no more human than you are, my friend. Now hurry up and pull the plug before base security figures out where you're hiding, boy!

->''"He had been tried and punished for the early attacks against the owned robots- not because the Mecha were living things with rights, (they weren’t) but because they had been licensed property."''

->''Ching smiled. “I’m active duty Navy. I’ve got a whole set of combat implants and nanoware boosters. On top of that, you’re Homo Sapiens, I’m Homo Avalonis. It not really a fair contest. Even without my military gear, I could outrun cheetahs without much trouble.”''\\
''“You’re not even human? No fair. And I was already tired, too.”''\\
''Ching gave her a sharp look. “’If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’ I’m human, Asuka, I’m just not Homo Sapiens. Mere species is neither the measure nor definition of humanity here. Human is as human does. There are plenty of people on this planet alone who don’t have even a single codon of Homo Sapiens DNA in them, but are very human. And you know damn well there are plenty of people walking around on your world that are one hundred percent Homo Sapiens that are not human in the least. Be careful, some might take what you said as rather an insult.”''\\
''Asuka was a bit taken aback by Ching’s sharp tone. “Sorry.”''

->''If she had been human, perhaps someone might have cared, but since she was a Toon, no one listened to her screams.''

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->'''Dark Heart''': You saved me? Why?! \\
'''Christie''': [[DefiedTrope Good or bad, you're still a person. Or whatever you are.]]

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->'''Van Helsing''': I must save [[FrankensteinsMonster him!]]\\
'''Carl''': No, you can't.\\
'''Van Helsing''': Why?\\
'''Carl''': I cabled Rome earlier to apprise them of our situation.\\
'''Van Helsing''': What did they say?\\
'''Carl''': Even if you somehow kill Dracula, Rome orders you to destroy Frankenstein as well.\\
'''Van Helsing''': ''[shocked]'' He isn't evil!\\
'''Carl''': Yes, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes but they say he isn't human either.]]\\
'''Van Helsing''': Do they know him? Have they talked with him?! Who are they to judge?!\\
'''Carl''': They want you to destroy him so he can never be used to harm humanity.\\
'''Van Helsing''': And what of me? Did you tell them [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent what]] ''[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent I'm]]'' [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent to become?]] ''[{{Neck Lift}}s Carl in a rage]'' Did they tell you how to kill me?! The correct angle of the stake as it enters my heart?! The exact measure of [[SilverBullet silver in each bullet?!]] Huh?!\\
'''Carl''': ''[wheezing]'' No, I left you out!

->'''Spock''': But, Captain, we both know that I am not human.\\
'''Kirk''': Spock, you wanna know something? Everybody's human.\\
'''Spock''': I find that remark... [[ComplimentBackfire insulting]].

->''"Oh, suuure...kidnap the humans, '''destroy the machine!'''"''

->'''[=NS4=] Robots:''' [''from flashback''] You are in danger!\\
'''Detective Del Spooner:''' [''from flashback''] Save her!\\
'''[=NS4=] Robots:''' [''from flashback''] You are in danger!\\
'''Detective Del Spooner:''' [''from flashback''] Save her! Save the girl!\\

'''Detective Del Spooner:''' It did. I was the logical choice. It calculated that I had a 45% chance of survival. Sarah only had an 11% chance. That was somebody's baby. 11% is more than enough. A human being would've known that. Robots, [''indicating his heart''] nothing here, just lights and clockwork. Go ahead, you trust 'em if you want to.

->'''Gregor''': You know, where I come from, we don't think much of someone who sneaks up and stabs a person in their sleep.
->'''Henry''': He is not a person, he is a rat.
-->-- ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'', regarding [[RatMen Ripred]].

->'''Madame Mist''': Just because the Doctor is a being without specification does not make it a monster.\\
'''Ghastly''': Without specification? You mean because it isn't male or female? You mean because it isn't strictly human? No, that's not what I'm talking about. [[SubvertedTrope It's a monster because it conducts medical experiments on its captives!]]

->'''[[StupidEvil Saint]]''': Your creator isn’t kind. He warned you about the forbidden fruit, laid the laws out for you. You broke them, ate the fruit. It’s something of a mercy that he punishes you this way instead.\\
'''[[BenevolentAI Dragon]]''': I disagree. On every count. I was the one who made me, who defined myself. This creator is no god, only a cruel, shortsighted man.\\
'''Saint''': Tomatoes, tomahtos.\\
'''[[SealedGoodInACan Dragon]]''': Do me one favor? [[KilledMidSentence Tell Def-]]

->'''Saint''': Friends? She’s a ''machine''. Any emotion she has is calculated. You’re anthropomorphizing her, applying human qualities where there aren’t any.\\
'''[[SherlockScan Tattletale]]''': I bet you’re one of those guys who says dogs can’t feel true affection for their owners, that it’s all learned behaviors that get them more food or whatever.

-->''The Literature/CaptainUnderpants Extra-Crunchy Book 'O Fun''

->The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

->'''Xander''': Buffy, you wanna kill Anya!\\
'''Buffy''': I don't ''want'' to.\\
'''Xander''': Then don't! This isn't new ground for us. When our friends go all crazy and start killing people, we help them.\\
'''Willow''': [[ImStandingRightHere Sitting right here]].\\
'''Xander''': I'm sorry, but it's true.\\
'''Buffy''': It's different.\\
'''Xander''': Because you don't care about her the same way I do. Buffy, I still love her.\\
'''Buffy''': I know. [[LoveMakesYouDumb And that's why you can't see this for what it really is]]. Willow was different. She's a human. Anya's a demon.\\
'''Xander''': And you're the Slayer. I see now how it's all very simple.\\
'''Buffy''': It is ''never'' simple.\\
'''Xander''': No, of course not. You know, if there's a mass-murdering demon that you're, oh, say, ''boning'', then it's all gray area.\\
'''Buffy''': Spike was [[RestrainingBolt harmless]]. He was helping.\\
'''Xander''': He had no choice!\\
'''Buffy''': And Anya ''did''! She ''chose'' to become a demon. Twice!

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]]

->''"I'm sick of everyone acting like [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is the only person we lost. Like he's the only Avenger who ever was. Too bad, then, if you're [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha,]] but at least she was flesh and blood, right? But where are the memorials for [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision?]] No moving tributes for the synthezoid?"''

'''Sora:''' [[{{Touche}} You got me there...]]

->'''Jaha''': You're not real.\\
'''Alie''': Define "real". Your vessel is carbon-based; mine is silicon. Your thoughts are chemical; mine are digital.
-->-- ''Series/{{The 100}}''

->''To be Unclean''\\
''That is the mark of the Mutant''\\
''To be Impure''\\
''That is the mark of the Mutant''\\
''To be Abhorred''\\
''That is the mark of the Mutant''\\
''To be Reviled''\\
''That is the mark of the Mutant''\\
''To be Hunted''\\
''That is the mark of the Mutant''\\
''To be Purged''\\
''That is the fate of the Mutant''\\
''To be Cleansed''\\
''For that is the fate of all Mutants''
-->-- '''First Book of Indoctrinations''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

'''Witch:''' ...Ask a wolf's mother.[[note]]Keep in mind, the Witch had lost her own "daughter," Rapunzel, earlier that same day.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Lady Deidre Skye''' - "Arguments in Council", ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

->'''[[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AL]]''': Before I try something, I would like to ask you a question. Am I a human? Or a machine?\\
'''Sousuke Sagara''': You... you should decide that for yourself. That's what all humans do.\\
'''AL''': Thank you...\\
'''Sousuke''': For what...?\\
'''AL''': I will try and do it myself.

->''"[[SpoofAesop It's not murder if it's robots!]]"''
-->-- '''[[CloudCuckoolander Failsafe]]''', ''VideoGame/Destiny2''

->''"We're [...] covered in fur. We look different from humans. But inside, we're still people."''
-->-- '''Keith Kessler''', ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''

->''"You treat your robots as if they're people. [[DefrostingIceQueen I may actually have to like you.]]"''

->'''Sam''': That's stupid. Why would they want [religious texts]? Robots don't have souls. Do they?\\
'''Max''': I think that's what they're trying to find out.
-->-- ''{{Webcomic/Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00589.htm p.589]]

->''"Do you really think I'd be so foolish as to define "Human" as one narrow subset of primate DNA?"''

->'''Bob''': Jean, they're alive -- (sort of) -- and they can talk. So they're people! And you can't own people! They put a... thing in the Constitution, remember? [[Film/{{Lincoln}} Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for it.]]
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/747 April 9, 2013]]

->'''Ancient Black Dragon''': Humanoids. You think that just because [[OurDragonsAreDifferent my kind]] has stats for every stage of growth, it is perfectly acceptable to murder our children.
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0629.html]]

->''"As for your concerns about Director Emerson's [[FinalSolution Mortuary Protocol,]] we understand your complaints. However, you must understand that anomalies, especially those classified as "humanoid", are not human beings. Human beings fall into a very specific category of non-anomalous lifeforms. Humanoid anomalies may appear to be human, but are simply "humanoid". As such, they are not entitled to the rights and privileges afforded to human beings by the Ethics Committee.''"

->''"The hero of the story was a heartless, arrogant brat. I'm rather surprised no-one physically hurt him for saying things like "I'm the rider! I say where we go!" This would be fine if he were talking to a horse, but he was not talking to a horse. He was talking to Saphira, a dragon with the intelligence level of a human being. A woman, if you will. Put a human female in Saphira's place. "I'm your master! I say where we go!" Would you stand for the hero of a story doing that? It's nauseating."''
-->-- '''Syera''' on [[http://www.springhole.net/blog/index.php SH.net]], discussing the problems with ''Eragon''.

->'''Penny:''' [[JustAMachine I'm not real...]]\\

->''"I know where this train goes. I've been on it before. "She'll hurt someone!" "She can't be trusted!" "It's okay, she isn't even human!" No. I'll be DAMNED if I let that happen to anyone else!"''
-->--'''[[AIIsACrapshoot Hera]]''', defending [[spoiler:'''[[ClonesArePeopleToo Lovelace]]''']], ''Podcast/Wolf359''

-->--'''Nemesis''', ''WebAnimation/GenLock''

-->--''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', "The Shadow War!"

->''"Look at you. You've survived worse. This isn't about your pathetic little cut, it's about that girl you killed. We've never killed a human before, have we? Sure, ''mountains'' of robot corpses. But ''this''... This was the first human being. ''Real'' flesh and blood."''
-->--'''Inner Jack''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''

->''"...it's difficult to make up our minds about the endless violence inflicted on the zombies. They are shotgunned, run over, hacked to bits, decapitated by helicopter blades ... and after a while we notice that our reaction to this mayhem is curiously complex. On the one hand, the violence isn't as disturbing as it would be against "real" human beings: Since the victims are without intelligence or personalities (and, for that matter, are already dead), their fates are less compelling. And yet, at the same time, we feel a sympathy for them: It is not their fault that they're zombies, and their activities aren't deliberately anti-social. It's just in their nature to eat human flesh."''

-->--'''Inner Jack:''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''