Quotes / Humanity Is Infectious

"And the sensible, workaday part of his brain told the other two parts to pay attention to business and quit expecting human responses out of atevi minds. Jago meant what Jago said, point, endit; ... and neither Banichi nor Jago was suddenly, by being cooped up with a bored human, about to break out in human sentiment. It wasn't contagious, it wasn't transferable ..."

— Foreigner (1994)

Quark: I want you to try something for me. Take a sip of this.
Garak: What is it?
Quark: A human drink; it's called root beer.
Garak: I dunno...
Quark: Come on. Aren't you just a little bit curious?
Garak takes a sip, wincing as he tastes it.
Quark: What do you think?
Garak: It's vile!
Quark: I know. It's so bubbly, cloying...and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: And you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
Garak: It's insidious.
Quark: Just like the Federation.

— Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Way of the Warrior"

"He tried to push the feelings away, but they were seductive. A spiral, where the feelings were both the torment and the balm that soothed the torment. Stopping was daunting. He had been wrapped up in them, and now it was something else. He'd never dealt with something like this. For hours, days, he'd been reveling in emotion, and now he couldn't stow it away, even as he experienced trauma for the first time."

— Worm

"The First Doctor showed great early promise, with a brutality similar to the great Field Marshall Styre....
[clip of the First Doctor acting like a paranoid bully to his companions]
...but he was soon infected with the human disease known as 'compassion'."

— Strax, Doctor Who

Eddie Brock: Cut the bullshit. What really made you change your mind?
Venom: You. You did, Eddie.

— Venom (2018)

"Oh, man. This stinks. I'm having this feeling where... What is it called? You know where you did a thing and you're sad after it? After-sad? Is that... No. You humans have so many emotions! You only need two, anger and confusion!"

— Michael, The Good Place, "Best Self"

Human Harry Vanderspeigle Hallucination: You know, you're just stalling. You're afraid to kill everyone.
Harry Vanderspeigle Alien: No, I'm not. My people do not feel fear.
Hallucination: Yes, but you're not your people anymore, are you? You've been infected with humanity.
Alien: I don't need to listen to this!

— Resident Alien, "Heroes of Patience"

"I'm telling you, humans are contagious. They got a way of getting under your scales… but it's not so bad if you let it happen."

— Courtney, Dead End: Paranormal Park, "Into the Fire"

John: As the King in Yellow, I was not hostile towards your kind – I was indifferent. I did not hate or despise you, no more than you despise an ant. You are meaningless. But... it was in that time in the hospital, that month, alone… trapped in this body without you, when something changed.
Arthur: You found humanity?
John: I found meaning. I found that the challenges of life within the boundaries of death were not only acceptable, but could be meaningful. That without a purpose, I could forge my own. Is that humanity?

— Malevolent, "The Dreamlands"

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