1. “I guess everything that comes out of the human mouth is poison.” (John Steinbeck, Cannery Row)
2. “… it’s a very human trait to show to your neighbours the very best face you can put on in times of emergency and danger.” (Alistair MacLean, Night Without End)
3. “Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?” (John Steinbeck, Cannery Row)
4. “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.” (The Matrix)
5. “It is a truism of human nature, that people learn to hate those who help them.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)
6. “To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” (The Matrix)
7. “The human mind is complicated. And mysterious.” (Bethany Campbell, Hear No Evil)
8. “You leant everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)
9. “Bearers of bad news were ever unpopular.” (Alistair MacLean, Night Without End)
10. “Sometimes you have to see a person in his real environment to understand him.” (John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces)