"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
— Ripley, Aliens
"You're inhuman!" cried Proton. "Of course you are; what am I saying... that's not the point! What matters is you'll kill vast numbers of innocent people!"
"But you humans do that all the time!" replied D'Ork indignantly.
"But you humans do that all the time!" replied D'Ork indignantly.
"Had the Kryptonian or the Amazon taken that gamble: they would have lost. They do not have the strength of character to annihilate an entire planet to achieve success. But you? A human? You'd kill your own kind to win battles. An admirable quality."
— Darkseid to Batman, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
"Humanoids live to kill. Without a common enemy to fight, they divide. Destroy each other. Insectoids live to survive. No conflicts divide us. We build upon each other. Kin does not kill kin."
— Excerpt from D'Vorah's Tower Ending, Mortal Kombat 11
Anan 7: There can be no peace. Don't you see? We've admitted it to ourselves. We're a killer species. It's instinctive. It's the same with you. Your General Order 24.
Captain Kirk: All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill... today.
Captain Kirk: All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill... today.
