Modern Quote by H. L. Mencken

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose salutation is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted…

— Augusten Burroughs

“The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning sun. Some yelled…

— Cole Alpaugh

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

— Eileen Wilks

“Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.”

— Samuel Beckett

“In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls. "Man blessed by heaven,"…

— Italo Calvino

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous…

— Demosthenes

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals…

— Robert Eggers

“People force a despised minority to live in squalor, which makes them seem animalistic and subhuman, which encourages the dominant group to mistreat them…

— Steven Pinker

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

— Jules Michelet