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3[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
4->''"Animals have no malice. It's the supreme emotion, one that only humans developed! You must have felt it yourself. Anger, hatred, revenge, destruction! The power of malice!! When you unleash your darkest emotions, that's when you're most human. Evil is the true shape of humanity."''
5-->--'''Dante''', ''Manga/BlackClover''
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7->''"I look down on existence from a much higher perspective than you do. I witness this world, this universe and the truth of all things. That yields deeper understanding. Wisdom. [[OmniscientMoralityLicense The realization that all mortals should be destroyed.]] The one and only mistake among all divine creations. That is what mortals are. And this mistake is egregious. To shape existence into [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans the beautiful utopia it was always meant to be]], the mistake must be corrected. [[KillAllHumans I will purge all mortals from existence.]] In place of the gods [[SuddenlyShouting WHO REFUSE TO ADMIT FAILURE!!"]]''
8-->--'''Goku Black''' to '''Future Trunks''', ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''
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10->"This is human nature, Matoi! Prosperity leads to greed; greed leads to their downfall! One taste of an affluent lifestyle and they're enslaved - slaves to a system which I created! They are nothing more than pigs! Pigs in human clothing! ''Pigs that must be tamed BY FORCE!''"
11-->--'''Satsuki Kiryuin''', ''Anime/KillLaKill''
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13-> ''"No matter what we learn, no matter what we manage to obtain, nothing ever changes! People are amazing that way! They become envious, hate each other, and destroy each other! If that's what they truly desire, why don't they simply exterminate each other?!"''
14-->-- '''Rau Le Creuset''', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed''
15
16->"The mind which most foolish humans have is no praiseworthy thing. It is merely appetite, isn't it?"
17-->--'''Sima Yi Destiny Gundam''', ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden: Soshoki''
18
19->''"The people that fall are the ones who get labeled as villains. [[EveryoneIsASuper Even if you take pride in your "Quirks" and individualism]], in the end, this is a controlled society. [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer If you can't fit in, you'll be excluded.]] There are no exceptions. Doesn't matter if it's democracy or a dictatorship, the origins are all the same. This was an issue before the first traces of society even emerged. [[InherentInTheSystem It's just human nature.]]''"
20-->--'''All For One''', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''
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22->''"[[NotSoDifferentRemark We're both of the same breed, after all…]] motives for war are of no concern. [[TheFundamentalist Religion]], [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies ideology]], [[WarForFunAndProfit resources, land,]] [[CycleOfRevenge grudges,]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil love,]] or [[ForTheEvulz just because…]] [[SillyReasonForWar No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start a war.]] [[WarIsHell War will never cease to exist…]] Reasons can be thought up after the fact. Human nature pursues strife.''"
23-->--'''Pain''', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''
24
25->''"Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they wanna find a flaw."''
26-->-- '''Heiji Hattori''', ''Manga/CaseClosed''
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28
29[[folder:Comedy]]
30->"Hitler had the right idea! He was just an underachiever! Kill 'em all, Adolf! Kill 'em all! Jew, Mexican, American, white! Kill 'em all! Start over! The experiment didn't work!"
31-->--'''Creator/BillHicks'''
32
33->"I'm tired of hearing about 'innocent victims'. It's fiction. If you live on this planet, you're guilty, period, fuck you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt."
34-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''
35[[/folder]]
36
37[[folder:Comic Books]]
38->''"Look at the way they kill each other! I saw it in the war! They don’t care nothing about killing each other by the thousands, all in a single afternoon! I saw it every day in the war! Killing mundys ain't no crime any more than stomping on bugs! How can it be?"''
39-->-- '''Jack Horner''', ''[[ComicBook/{{Fables}} Jack of Fables]]''
40
41->'''Tarkan:''' Funny, isn't it? How much the world has changed. Everything that used to be so important — land, resources. Overpopulation, religion. Those things that once divided us all seem so petty now. Maybe humans are at our best when we're facing a common threat. I don't know. What do you think?\
42'''Emma Russell:''' I don't think anything's changed. Nothing at all.
43-->-- ''[[Franchise/MonsterVerse Godzilla: Aftershock]]''
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45
46[[folder:Fan Works]]
47->"Men care for what they, themselves, expect to suffer or gain; and so long as they do not expect it to redound upon themselves, their cruelty and carelessness is without limit."
48-->-- '''Professor Quirrell''', ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''
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50->"7.3 billion... humans have multiplied way too much... and eventually started to kill for purposes other than eating... I... think... I think that the word "pest" is for sure very much suitable for humans. Humans pollute this planet of life, eat and eat and then just leave behind a mess, without ever thinking of the consequences, all whilst growing their number. If the god who created this planet were ever to see it now... to see the humans... surely, they would get goosebumps, wouldn't they?"
51-->-- '''Seiga''', ''Fanfic/{{Suikakasen}}''
52
53
54->"I'm sorry to break it to you, but humans don't have the greatest reputation in the greater cosmos. Something about being violent retarded self-centered monkeys that are more likely to blow themselves up a thousand times over than sticking to an agreement for longer than fifty years peacefully even with a kunai to our necks. The few peaceful organizations out there usually avoid making long term deals with our kind."
55-->-- '''Naruto Uzumaki''', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8832472/44/ Take Two Round Two]]''
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57
58->"You're inhuman!" cried Proton. "[[AlienInvasion Of course you are; what am I saying]]...that's not the point! What matters is you'll kill vast numbers of innocent people!"\
59"But you humans do that all the time!" replied D'Ork indignantly.
60-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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62->''Monster? You think ''I'm'' a monster? I come from a world [[DisproportionateRetribution where rapists and murderers spend less time in prison than people who smoke grass or fib on their tax returns!]] [[WouldHurtAChild Where tyrants fill mass graves with little children]] and stuff people into woodchippers [[ForTheEvulz for laughs]]! Where so-called scientists torture animals to death to invent a new shade of ''Mascara!'' Where women [[AuthorTract throw their newborn babies into dumpsters]], or ''rip them out of their womb in bloody chunks'' because they don't want to take the responsibility of raising their own offspring and maybe missing the fricking ''PROM!'' Where kids ''[[KidsAreCruel murder]]'' each other [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer for the right to sell poison to other kids in their own neighborhood!]] Where [[CorruptPolitician leaders]] ''[[CorruptPolitician lie, perjure, plunder and oath-break,]]'' and get voted back in office because they promised their followers free health care and cell phones! Where maniacs strap bombs to their own ''children'' and use their wives as ''[[HumanShield human shields!]]'' Where they [[FelonyMisdemeanor stone women to death for speaking to a man]] and [[TakingYouWithMe fly planes into buildings full of innocent people for Allah!]] [[FinalSolution Where maniacs slaughter]] ''[[FinalSolution millions]]'' [[FinalSolution for being the wrong race or color]] and make lampshades out of their SKIN! I'm a monster? There's a thousand monsters, from least to greatest, where I come from. '''[[NormalFishInATinyPond AND I'M NOT EVEN ON THE LIST!]]'''''
63-->--'''Darth Vulcan to Princess Cadence''', ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan''
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65[[/folder]]
66
67[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
68->'''Appa Ali Apsa''': I'm afraid the human race of Earth does not have the most stellar reputation.\
69'''Ranakar''': The fact is humans are crude, base, fearful and untrustworthy.\
70'''Guardian''': And then there's the smell.
71-->--''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight''
72
73->'''Superman''': We are not above the law. We have to show the world that there's a better way. That people can be better.\
74'''Manchester Black''': But that's the problem. They can't. The world's overflowing with sick puppies. Original sin in 36 flavors.
75-->--''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite''
76
77->'''Lucifer''': I've had no need to influence humanity for many millennium my dear. I simply introduced sin. Man is the one who has spread it like a disease; cultivating it, empowering it.\
78'''Beatrice''': It is not our fault, none of it. Man is good.\
79'''Lucifer''': No, you don't understand. The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons.
80
81-->--''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' (animated film version)
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83
84[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
85->"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see ''them'' fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
86-->-- '''Ellen Ripley''', ''Film/{{Aliens}}''
87
88->"I'd like the share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. Instead, you ''multiply''. And multiply until every resource is consumed. And the only way to can survive is to ''spread'' to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are the cure."
89-->--'''Agent Smith''', ''Film/TheMatrix''
90
91->"I'll show ya. When the chips are down, these 'civilized' people, they'll ''eat each other''. See, I'm not a monster; I'm just ahead of the curve."
92-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
93
94->"Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race."
95-->-- '''Ironhide''', ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}''
96
97->'''Kyoami''': Are there no gods... no Buddha? If you exist, hear me. You are mischievous and cruel! Are you so bored up there you must crush us like ants? Is it such fun to see men weep?\
98'''Tango''': Enough! Do not blaspheme! It is the gods who weep. They see us killing each other over and over since time began. They can't save us from ourselves.
99-->--''Film/{{Ran}}''
100
101->"Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!"
102-->--'''Tango''', ''Film/{{Ran}}''
103
104->'''Nux''': We're not to blame!\
105'''The Splendid Angharad''': Then who killed the world?
106-->--''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''
107
108->"I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized. It's a bit inconsistent, isn't it?"
109-->--'''Doc''', ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame''
110
111->'''John Connor''': We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.\
112'''The Terminator''': It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.\
113'''John''': Yeah. Major drag, huh?
114-->--''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
115
116->''"When a man meets a man, you never know which one will die. But when an animal meets a man, it's always the animal that dies. I'm on the animals' side."''
117-->--'''Mace''', ''Film/{{Conquest}}''
118
119->''"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying."''
120-->--'''UsefulNotes/AlanTuring''', ''Film/TheImitationGame''
121
122->''"Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out."''
123-->--'''James Cole''', ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''
124
125->'''Diana Prince''': I killed him, why are they doing this? Why are they still fighting?\
126'''Steve Trevor''': Because maybe it's them! Maybe people aren't always good, Ares or no Ares. Maybe it's just who they are.\
127'''Diana Prince''': No... After everything I saw, it can't be. It cannot be! They were killing each other! Killing people they cannot see! Children. Children! No, it had to be him, it cannot be them!\
128'''Steve Trevor''': Diana, people...\
129'''Diana Prince''': ''(in tears)'' She was right, my mother was right... she said the world of men do not deserve you, they don't deserve our help...\
130'''Steve Trevor''': It's... it's not about deserve. Maybe, maybe we don't. But it's not about that, it's about what you believe. You don't think I get it, after what I've seen out there? You don't think I wish I could tell you that it was one bad guy to blame? It's not! We're all to blame!\
131'''Diana Prince''': I'm not.\
132'''Steve Trevor''': But maybe I am!
133-->--''Film/WonderWoman2017''
134
135->''"Look at this world. Mankind did [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI this]], not me. They are ugly, filled with hatred, weak!"''
136-->--'''Ares''', ''Film/WonderWoman2017''
137
138->'''Tanna''': What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way?\
139'''Eros''': Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems.
140-->--''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''
141
142->''"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."''
143-->--'''Agent K''', ''Film/MenInBlack''
144
145->''"Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?"''
146-->--'''Agent K''', ''Film/MenInBlack''
147
148->''"It is mankind, rather, who insists upon making it difficult for life to exist upon this planet."''
149-->--'''Mrs. Bundy''', ''Film/TheBirds''
150
151-> '''Sara:''' You're an animal!\
152'''Oscar "Manny" Manheim:''' Worse. Human. '''Human!'''
153-->-- ''Film/RunawayTrain''
154
155->''"As you can imagine, I don't trust humans. I find you to be hateful and selfish."''
156-->-- '''Doric''', ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves''
157
158->''"I'm a humanist. Maybe the last humanist. Who, in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny the 20th century was entirely ''mine''?"''
159-->-- '''[[{{Satan}} John Milton]]''', ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''
160
161->'''Cornelius:''' You don't like them very much, do you?\
162'''Zira:''' Who?\
163'''Cornelius:''' Humans.\
164'''Zira:''' We've met hundreds since we've been here, and I trust... three.
165-->-- ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''
166
167->''"You're on me every night like a pack of wolves because you can't stand facing what you are and what you've made! Yes, the world is a terrible place. Yes, cancer and garbage disposals will get you. Yes, a war is coming. Yes, the world is shot to hell and you're all goners. Everything's screwed up and you like it that way, don't you? You're fascinated by the gory details. You're mesmerized by your own fear. You revel in floods and car accidents, unstoppable diseases. You're happiest when others are in pain. That's where I come in, isn't it? I'm here to lead you by the hand through the dark forest of your own hatred and anger and humiliation. I'm providing a public service. You're so scared. You're like a little child under the covers. You're afraid of the boogeyman but you can't live without him. Your fear -- your own lives -- have become your entertainment. Next month, millions of people are going to be listening to this show and you'll have nothing to talk about! Marvelous technology is at our disposal, and instead of reaching up to new heights, we're gonna see how far down we can go! How deep into the muck we can immerse ourselves? What do you wanna talk about, ''hmm?'' Baseball scores? Your pet? Orgasms? You're pathetic. I despise each and every one of you. You've got nothing, absolutely nothing. No brains, no power, no future, no hope, no God. The only thing you believe in is me. What are you if you don't have me? I'm not afraid see. I come in here every night, I make my case, I make my point, I say what I believe in. I tell you what you are -- I have to, I have no choice! You frighten me! I come in here every night, I tear into you, I abuse you, I insult you, you just keep coming back for more! [[VillainousBreakdown What's wrong with you, why do you keep calling? I don't wanna hear anymore, stop talking! Go away!]]"''
168-->--'''Barry Champlain''', ''Film/TalkRadio''
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170
171[[folder:Literature]]
172->''We were by nature children of wrath even as the rest''
173-->--'''Paul the Apostle''', [[Literature/BookOfEphesians Ephesians 2:3]], ''Literature/TheBible'' (Berean Literal Bible)
174
175->''"Do no remember heroes. Do not speak their names.\
176Remember my words, but do not speak my name.\
177I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to Rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythms of Earth’s day, Earth’s year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.\
178And I have a vision of a child. Who will grow up knowing neither family nor comfort. Who will not be distracted by the illusion of a long life. Who will know nothing but honor and duty. Who will die joyously for the sake of mankind.\
179That is a hero. And I will never know her name.\
180Always remember: a brief life burns brightly."''
181-->--'''Hama Druz''', founder of the [[TheEmpire Interim Coalition of Governance]], ''[[Literature/XeeleeSequence Exultant]]''.
182
183->''"Of all living things, humans are the most greedy, the most ruthless, the most selfish, the most deceitful. That's why they rule the world."''
184-->--'''Argal''', ''Literature/{{Doglands}}''
185
186->''"We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they ''have'' no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus."''
187-->--'''Creator/WilliamSBurroughs'''
188
189->''I never use the words humanist or humanitarian, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.''
190-->-- '''Elphaba Thropp''', ''Literature/{{Wicked}}''
191
192->''"I have endured many a fight with my own kind. I have known the cruelty of foxes, and the savagery of dogs; but there is nothing to match the venomous cruelty of human beings."''
193-->-- '''Pufftail''', ''Literature/{{Stray|1987}}''
194
195->''"This is humanity's legacy, Arthur. This place. This girl. Not to be dramatic, but all that will be left in its wake are death and disease and pestilence. And do people throw their hands up and wail at their inadequacies? At the horror they have wrought on the world? No. It is an inconvenience. A fucking inconvenience, Arthur! This! History! The future! It's an aggravating afterthought! People poison this planet. They tear it apart. They take, and they take, and they take. And this is what they leave behind. These temples of shit. Like ugly signatures. They kill themselves, poison their children and they do it because it's convenient. Because it's easy. Because they are fucking monsters, Arthur. People are awful and monstrous."''
196-->-- '''Clyde 2.0''', ''Anti-Hero'', by Jonathan Wood
197
198->''I wondered about the image of [[GentleGiant Hork-Bajir]] and humans living side by side if the Yeerks were defeated. Humans didn’t have a great record of getting along with people different from themselves.\
199Humans killed one another over skin color or eye shape or because they prayed differently to the same god. Hard to imagine humans welcoming seven-foot-tall [[LizardFolk goblins]] into the local Boy Scout troop when they couldn’t even manage to tolerate some gay kid.''
200-->--'''Tobias''', ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
201
202->Why should I help any of them? They do what is right only when forced to, when there is no alternative. They fell of their own accord and are fallen now, of their own accord, by what they have voluntarily done. My mother is dead because of them; they murdered her. They would murder me if they could figure out where I am; only because I have confused their wits do they leave me alone. High and low they seek my life, just as Ahab sought Elijah's life, so long ago. They are a worthless race, and I do not care if they fall. I do not care at all. To save them I must fight what they themselves are and have always been.
203-->--'''[[GooGooGodlike Emmanuel]],''' ''[[Creator/PhilipKDick The Divine Invasion]]''
204
205->“Maybe,” he said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast.”
206->The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement.
207->“You, Simon? You believe in this?”
208->“I don’t know,” said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. “But. . . .”
209->The storm broke.
210->“Sit down!”
211->“Shut up!”
212->“Take the conch!”
213->“Sod you!”
214->“Shut up!”
215->Ralph shouted.
216->“Hear him! He’s got the conch!”
217->“What I mean is . . . maybe it’s only us.”"''
218-->-- ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''
219
220->MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.\
221His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Canada]].
222-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary''
223
224->"When it ''talks'', it is a race of whales; but a king knows it for a race of tadpoles. Its history gives it away. If men were really ''men'', how could a Czar be possible? and how could I be possible? But we ''are'' possible; we are quite safe; and with God's help we shall continue the business at the old stand. It will be found that the race will put up with us, in its docile immemorial way. It may pull a wry face now and then, and make large talk, but it will stay on its knees all the same."
225-->-- '''Leopold II of Belgium''', ''[[Literature/KingLeopoldsSoliloquy King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule]]''
226[[/folder]]
227
228[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
229->''"Do you know that you're one of the few predator species that preys even on itself?"''
230-->--'''Trelane''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ([[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E17TheSquireOfGothos}} "The Squire of Gothos"]])
231
232->'''Merlin:''' I ask you to hold Excalibur for me, until a good man comes to take it from you.\
233'''The Rock Of Ages:''' THEN I WILL BE HOLDING IT FOREVER. IF NOT ''LONGER...'' ''[chuckles softly]''
234-->--''Series/Merlin1998''
235
236->''"Let me tell you something about ''hu-mons'', nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working, but take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same, friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon."''
237-->-- '''Quark''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Siege of AR-558"
238
239->''"We're bad. No, we are. As a species, we're bad. Don't start giving me Shakespeare's sonnets. We're wicked!"''
240-->-- '''Alan Davies''', ''Series/{{QI}}''
241
242->'''Dr. Molly Clock''': Perry, no one's "pure evil"! I mean, yeah, some people have a hard outer shell, but inside, ''everybody'' has a creamy center.\
243'''Dr. Perry Cox:''' There are plenty of people here on this particular planet who are hard on the outside ''and'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk hard on the inside]].\
244'''Dr. Clock:''' So they'd have [[ComicallyMissingThePoint more of a nougat-y center?]]\
245'''Dr. Cox:''' ''Lady, people aren't chocolates.'' You know what they are mostly? People are Bastards. Bastard Coated Bastards with a bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naïve, bubble-headed optimists who walk around [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids vomiting sunshine.]]
246-->--''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', "My Common Enemy"
247
248->"You know why God cast me down? Because I loved Him. More than anything. And then God created... you. The little... hairless apes. And then He asked all of us to bow down before you, to love you, more than Him. And I said, "Father, I can't." I said, "These human beings are flawed, murderous." And for that, God had Michael cast me into Hell. Now, tell me, does the punishment fit the crime? Especially, when I was right? Look at what six billion of you have done to this thing, and how many of you blame me for it."
249-->-- '''Lucifer''', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', "The End"
250
251->'''Crowley:''' What was it [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} he]] said that got everyone so upset?\
252'''Aziraphale:''' "Be ''kind'' to each other."\
253'''Crowley:''' Oh yeah. That'll do it.
254-->-- ''Series/GoodOmens2019'', at the Crucifixion
255
256->''"I don't see the worst in everyone. I see the '''everyone''' in everyone."''
257-->-- '''Lt. Everett Backstrom''', ''{{Series/Backstrom}}''
258
259->''"The ball is the first game ever being invented. Stone Age Man, he picked up ein rock. He said, "Ah! Das ist ein ball!" He threw it, and it killed a man. He said, "Oh, what fun!" And now, everybody loves the balls! Until the year five billion, when the very last human kicks off the skull of his enemy, and said, "That is the final ball of all."''
260-->-- '''The Toymaker''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]"
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:Music]]
264->''So this is what you want?''\
265''A world not suitable for life?''\
266''(Self-damning idiots, with traits abhorrent and hideous)''\
267''Damn your traditions, god damn your religions''\
268''Shit on your systems, to hell with your decisions''\
269''As long as gravity holds these two feet to the ground''
270-->--'''Music/CattleDecapitation''', "Not Suitable For Life"
271
272->''Our greed and vanity has brought this final shame''\
273''We fanned the flames inside our home''\
274''Exiled humanity and all of us to blame''\
275''We only hope we're not alone''\
276''But who can trust us once they learn why we're adrift''\
277''If we can't even trust ourselves?''\
278''We are but insects undeserving of their gifts''\
279''We all deserve to burn in Hell!''
280-->--'''Music/JonathanYoung''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtS1vXPkRzQ Final Frontier]]"
281[[/folder]]
282
283[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
284->''"Above all else, it is important to portray Descent as much a product of humanity's failure -- on the part of the Sleepers and the Awakened alike -- as it is the result of Nephandi success, if not more so. Descent can result only when the overwhelming majority of the human race loses all concern for the world, the people in it, the sanctity of the human soul and the possibility of something better. Only a feast of apathy and spiritual atrophy can produce victory for the Fallen. In many ways, Descent will come about because humanity deserved nothing better, because it chose to die rather than to feel, try or care.\
285Don't forget to illustrate the human hubris, selfishness and folly that ''earn'' mankind the sentence of Descent. As the haves step over the have-nots in the street (with perhaps only a snide "Get a job" to indicate any awareness that a sentient being is slumped in the gutter); as the weak and innocent are preyed upon by the malevolent strong; as hope is drowned amidst a sea of layoffs, sex scandals and conflicts born of political ambition and the desire for profit; as people do ''nothing'' to reverse this tide, it becomes clear how all of this came to pass. The Traditions are fighting an admirable battle, but they are doing so for a human race that has, for the most part, not done much to warrant such support."''
286-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- Ascension''
287
288->''"It sickens me to my core when I think of Sigmar's vision of human unity and prosperity, and the see the selfish, petty and ignorant people we have become. Sometimes, I wonder if we as a people are becoming too sick to survive."''
289-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}, Liber Chaotica''
290
291->''"Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they've made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in [[Literature/HorusHeresy the fires of Horus' ambition]] than lived to see this."''
292-->-- '''Roboute Guilliman''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
293[[/folder]]
294
295[[folder:Theatre]]
296->''What keeps mankind alive?\
297The fact that millions are daily tortured\
298Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed\
299Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance\
300In keeping its humanity repressed\
301And for once you must try not to shirk the facts\
302Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts''
303-->-- ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera''
304[[/folder]]
305
306[[folder:Video Games]]
307->''"I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas. I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refugees; I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith. A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork. A house of skulls in the jungle. The innocent, '''the innocent''', Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved. This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat. your. hearts!"''
308-->--'''The Engineer''', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''
309
310->'''Alfred:''' A question, sir, If I may? How did Waylon Jones come to be [[BeastMan the way he is?]]\
311'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' Atavism from the looks of it. An unfortunate genetic mutation.\
312'''Alfred:''' Do you think the condition causes physical pain? Might that explain his rage?\
313'''Batman:''' [[FreudianExcuse It goes deeper than that.]] Imagine growing up looking like he did. [[KidsAreCruel Children are cruel]], Alfred.\
314'''Alfred:''' [[NotSoDifferentRemark So are adults, sir.]] All part of the 'human condition,' I suppose. We've a tendency to fear - often outright despise - that which is different. Ahh. But [[TerrorHero you]] already knew that.
315-->-- ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''
316
317->''"In the annals of history, the Great Mistake will forever be seen as a terrible and glorious war which [[EarthThatWas damaged our homeworld beyond repair]]. In this, history is wrong. The mistake was not the war — [[WideEyedIdealist it was our belief that we could start over]]. That when faced with mutual destruction, there could be peace between nations. [[WhatTheHellPlayer It is only now, many years later, and halfway across the universe that we see the truth:]] There is only one path to peace [[TearJerker and it must be walked alone]]."''
318-->-- '''Domination Victory text''', ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth''
319
320->Every age, it seems, is tainted by the greed of men. Rubbish to one such as I, devoid of all worldly wants. ''[EvilLaugh, followed by wistful sigh]'' Hmmm, I dunno, maybe it's just the way we are.
321-->-- '''Unbreakable Patches''', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII''
322
323->''"Just when humanity should be coming together, they turn on each other instead.''"
324-->-- '''Chuck Greene''', ''VideoGame/DeadRising2OffTheRecord''
325
326->''"Mankind is so depressing... Nothing but greed, stupidity and violence... 5,000 years of civilisation just to get to where we are..."''
327-->-- '''Carl Manfred''', ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman''
328
329->''"Yeah, the more I learn about people, the more I love my dog."''
330-->--'''Hank Anderson''', ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', quoting Creator/MarkTwain
331
332->'''Man:''' Anybody would've done what we did.\
333'''Woman:''' You ask me, that's exactly the problem.
334-->-- '''Vault 11 recording''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
335
336->'''Reuben:''' I couldn't sell arms.\
337'''The Jackal:''' Bullshit, Reuben. You have all the skills to be an arms dealer. Better one than me, even. You're smart, you're creative, you're a salesman - heh, you sold me on doing these dumb interviews. Man, the rest is just paperwork.\
338'''Reuben:''' I mean I'll be unable, psychologically, to sell arms.\
339'''The Jackal:''' I'm talking facts and you're talking theory. You're not a "good person", Reuben, you've just been lucky enough - you've never had to be otherwise. When it comes down to it, what a man ''can'' do is what a man ''will'' do. But believe what you want.
340-->--''VideoGame/FarCry2''
341
342->''"[[GreenEyedMonster Jealousy.]] [[ThePowerOfHate Hatred.]] [[AmbitionIsEvil Greed.]] Friends and family are driven to murder one another by these petty emotions. [[DarkAndTroubledPast Such emotions spawn fathers who would even kill their own brood.]] As long as humans control, as long as humans dictate, as long as humans exist, [[WarIsHell this madness will never end.]]''"
343-->--'''Zephiel''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade''
344
345->''"Thanks to our heroes, the world is safe again. Right? Wrong? No one can say. But as long as humans rule the world... [[ApocalypseHow The Orochi awakening is not so far away...]] Is humankind too late to avoid destruction? [[AmbitionIsEvil When the ambitions of many drive the world to destruction...]] To stop this, the Orochi exist. The Orochi...[[GaiasVengeance God's messenger?]] Perhaps... Maybe humankind is at fault. Humankind. Ambitious, cruel, resilient. But it cannot be forgotten... the real enemy is not Orochi. Humankind's real enemy? We've seen the enemy, [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves and it is us...]]''"
346-->--'''Edit Team Ending''', ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters97''
347
348->''"The destiny of destruction... Still awaits... So long as you have hearts, hate will lurk in the shadows. You who possess the wellspring of emotion known as the heart... You are the'' true ''Mavericks!"''
349-->--'''Serpent's''' last words, ''VideoGame/MegaManZX''
350
351->''"No matter how much you change the rules, no matter how much you refuse to admit defeat, in the end, the creatures known as "people" will always sign their own death warrant by acting out of stupidity and evil."''
352-->--'''King P''', ''VideoGame/Mother3''
353
354->'''Maximus''': Why can't we all just get along, Sameth?\
355'''Sameth:''' Because most of us are ''*honk*'', little buddy.
356-->-- ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse, Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak''
357
358->''"I've seen human nature at its core, and there is no light there."''
359-->--'''Ako Domi''', ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''
360
361->''Strip away the restrictions of law and common decency, and it becomes clear that the engine that drives humanity is their own selfish ambition. To achieve one's own goals necessitates trampling those of others underfoot. Yet mankind is all too anxious to label those who would do so as evil. What tragic irony.''
362-->-- '''Seth''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''
363
364->''"Snipin's a good job, mate! It's challengin' work, out of doors...I guarantee you'll not go hungry 'cause at the end of the day, long as there's two people left on the planet, '''someone''' is gonna want '''someone''' dead."''
365-->-- '''Sniper''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
366
367->''"Sooner or later, humans will kill off all Aen Seidhe, all dwarves and all gnomes. Then they'll start murdering each other. Your kind knows no other way, it's in your genes. You'll keep killing each other until only one remains: the strongest among you. A thousand years from now, a dim-witted human barbarian will climb to the top of a pile of bones, sit down and proclaim: 'I win!'"''
368-->-- '''Iorveth''', ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings''
369
370->''"Watch humans closely and you'll learn one thing: Deep down, they wish they were dead. They kill each other like they swat flies, running towards oblivion like blind rats. They see the divine flame of life and piss over it. Heh, they're genius at that. In a class all of their own, really."''
371-->-- '''Malos''', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry''
372
373->''"You have done nothing wrong. You simply strode forth towards the future. But the olden humans, they did not find value in it. You must have realized? This is not where you belong. Why make a martyr of yourself? Why be a stepping stone? For as long as the old is not excised...mankind has no future!"''
374-->-- '''Alpha''', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed''
375
376[[/folder]]
377
378[[folder:WebAnimation]]
379->''"Molecular evidence shows that they are the sole surviving members of the genus — and knowing them, I can venture a guess why."''
380-->--'''Sophodra''', ''WebAnimation/HumansBGone''
381
382->''"Now I'll be the first to admit: Humans are the '''worst'''. (gestures to himself) Case in point."''
383-->--'''Roman Torchwick''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
384
385->''"...For example, I was an elf, and every now and again characters would say, "Hello, you are an elf!" If I were a human presumably they'd say, "Hello, you are an asshole!" I'd like to see a Tolkienesque fantasy where the humans aren't the biggest pricks in the room; I mean, a lot of my friends are humans and some of them are all right."''
386-->--'''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' on ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''
387[[/folder]]
388
389[[folder:Web Videos]]
390->''"Humanity is just the worst to itself."''
391-->--'''[=MatPat=]''', ''WebVideo/GameTheory'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6eMorkX78 Are Your Mobile Games ILLEGAL?]]
392
393->"And yeah, this feeds into why I don't like {{Creator/Toshiki Inoue}}'s [[WorldOfJerkass "world of assholes" thing.]] As it underminds the heroes trying to protect the innocent and their associated journeys to become pinnacles in their own right, when the [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains ones being protected are always worst people than the monsters.]] There's trying to show not all bad guys are evil and victims have clean slates, (you know complex themes that aren't always recognized in the old good vs evil conflict) and then there's [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for the villains to win,]] simply so that the world would by default become a better place."
394-->-- Des Shinta explains why he hates Toshiki Inoue's {{Humans Are Bastards}} trope in his ''Series/KamenRider555'' review.
395[[/folder]]
396
397[[folder:Webcomics]]
398->'''[[LittleGreenMen Zorblaxian]]:''' Are humans good or bad?\
399'''Human:''' Neither. We're group oriented.\
400'''Human:''' As long as I'm convinced humanity is part of a single in-group, I'm basically a saint. I'm generous, loving, hard-working.\
401'''Human:''' But, if you convince me someone's part of an out-group, given enough programming, by god I'll eat their livers out of their living flesh.\
402'''Zorblaxian:''' I'm gonna write down 'bad' on my checklist.\
403'''Human:''' And I don't even like liver!
404-->-- ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad Bad]]
405
406->"I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of winning."
407-->--AltText to [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prayer-4 Prayer 4]], ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
408[[/folder]]
409
410[[folder:Western Animation]]
411->''So yeah, of course, it was the humans in the menagerie that set the moopsy free. They'd seen how profitable they were as an attraction, so they wanted to kill Narj and keep the station for themselves. Humans. We really are the worst.''
412-->-- '''Beckett Mariner''', on a pair of humans who deliberately freed a KillerRabbit knowing what it was, ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS4E02IHaveNoBonesYetIMustFlee I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee]]"
413[[/folder]]
414
415[[folder:Real Life]]
416->"Along comes UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} with this wonderful, moralistic philosophy, about why we should be tolerant and understanding of our fellow human beings, and then we spend the next two thousand years killing one another, because we can't quite agree on how he said it."
417-->-- '''Interview with the Creator/MontyPython team'''
418
419->''"On internet messageboards, there is no subject so vile or indefensible that someone won't post positively/in defense of it."''
420-->-- '''Skarka's Law''', ''RPG.net''
421
422->"We stopped searching for monsters under our bed when we realized the monsters are all inside us."
423-->--'''Sam Stevens'''
424
425->''Homo homini lupus est.'' (Man is a wolf to man)
426-->-- '''Unknown''', attributed to '''Plautus'''
427
428->''Man is the cruelest animal.''
429-->--'''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche'''
430
431->''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] had said that when he died, he would leave a great and strong Germany behind him. Instead, he gave the world a very different legacy: new knowledge of what human beings are capable of."''
432-->--''The Nazis: A Warning from History''
433
434->"I believe that if we do away with all of the pretentious facade in this world, we would find a dark area hidden inside humans that likes death and discrimination."
435-->-- '''Creator/YokoTaro'''
436
437->Goodness has only once found [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} a perfect incarnation]] in a human body and [[GoodIsImpotent never will again]], but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white but [[BlackAndGrayMorality black and grey]].
438-->-- '''Graham Greene'''
439
440->"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself."
441-->--'''UsefulNotes/CharlesManson''', convicted cult leader
442
443->"I am pessimistic about humanity and people, because we experienced the [[UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution Cultural Revolution]], so I am very vigilant and careful, as man is the most terrifying animal...I saw [[ImAHumanitarian man eating man]], man harming man, and it is the same now. Now, any time, someone can harm you, and they might not even know why they must harm you."
444-->--'''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Liping Yang Liping]]'''[[note]]Paraphrased and translated from Chinese, the full original quote can be read [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140406074248/http://history.people.com.cn/n/2013/1223/c372333-23922035.html here]].[[/note]]
445
446->"Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so."
447-->-- '''Arthur Schopenhauer'''
448
449->''"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:\
450Believing that [[TheSocialDarwinist personal gain is made by crushing others]];\
451Worrying about things [[SkewedPriorities that cannot be changed or corrected]];\
452Insisting that a thing [[ItWillNeverCatchOn is impossible because we cannot accomplish it]];\
453Refusing [[AHouseDivided to set aside trivial preferences]];\
454Neglecting [[TooDumbToLive development and refinement of the mind]];\
455Attempting [[AssimilationPlot to compel others to believe and live as we do]]."''
456-->-- '''Creator/{{Cicero}}'''
457
458->''"...it is gratuitous to advise any human being to look out for himself. [[ShapedLikeItself You can be sure that he will]]. It is far more difficult to persuade him to help his neighbor to build a dam or to defend a town or to give food he has accumulated to the victims of a famine."''
459-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''' [[http://www.esquire.com/features/gore-vidal-archive/comment-0761 on]] ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''
460
461->So many of [[Creator/CharlieBrooker Brooker]]'s characters are forced to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone face the monstrosity of their own actions]] -- done [[ObliviouslyEvil while looking through a filter]]; a theme Brooker has explored since [[Recap/BlackMirrorTheNationalAnthem the first episode]]: the entire population of Great Britain, punished for entertaining an idea so ugly and ridiculous it can only be a joke... until it becomes real. The metaphor unsheared. The distance between actor and act finally closed. And we're back to the start, [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} the original science-fiction tragedy]]: a new discovery, the [[LackOfEmpathy failure of empathy]], and a brand-new form of cruelty.\
462Brooker's tech isn't broken; his ''people'' are.
463-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle "Oancitizen" Kalgren]]''' on ''Series/BlackMirror''
464[[/folder]]

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