Quotes / Misanthrope Supreme

Anime & Manga

"You're wrong, you know? I don't want to destroy the world, on the contrary; I like flowers, and trees, insects and animals. The only thing I hate is all human beings."

— Senshui, YuYu Hakusho

Comic Books

"Brainiac hates all living things. Nuclear armageddon was always his plan for those who remained."

—Batman on Brainiac, Justice (DC Comics)

"Fuck you, dad. An' fuck you, mom. Fuck you, Karen, you pointless bitch. Fuck you, Uncle Jimmy. Fuck you, Auntie Mo, you big fat fuckin' cunt. Fuck you, Kai, an' all your dead brats alongside you. Fuck you, Jackie. Fuck you, Don Massimo Cesare, you pussy — the Punisher did us all a favor when he blew your fuckin' old head off. Fuck you, Ink, an' fuck you, Pittsy. A lotta use you two pricks turned out to be. Fuck you, Castle. I ain't finished with you yet, not by a long way. And when I get to Heaven, I'll tell them fuck you too."

— Nicky Cavella, The Punisher MAX

"One day, I'm going to drop a bomb on this city. A contraceptive bomb."

— Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan

"I hate you all, you know? All you scum. I want to be President because I hate you. I want to fuck with you. I want to make you shut up and do things properly. Get through your doomed little lives quietly."

— Gary "The Smiler" Callahan, Transmetropolitan

Fan Works

"Tirek's phone turned off, signaling XANA's departure. XANA was truly despicable, seeing humanity as merely a tool for his personal use. Well, as far as Tirek was concerned, humanity was just a disease anyway. If XANA wanted to rid the world of it, then he saw no issue with improving on Earth's biggest flaw."

—Code Lyoko: EG

Film — Live-Action

"My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape."

—Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

"Well, I've got news for you: I didn't come here to see you. I came here to see my son. My real son. The one inside of you. You're nothing but a superficial shell; a husk of flimsy consciousness, ready to be torn off at a moment's notice... Stop your bawling, you weak little speck of human trash."

— David Banner, Hulk

"See, I've cleaned up a lot of breeders, families like cesspools; filth making filth making filth. And I did it over and over and over again, but it was all leading me here... I was born to destroy them... and the breed together."

—Dr. Philip Decker, Nightbreed

"You know, I won't miss you when you're gone. Human beings are stupid and unreliable, and I care very little about them. My machines are diligent and relentless. THEY'RE EVERYTHING TO ME!"

— Dr. Robotnik to Agent Stone, Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

"There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking... I see the worst in people, Henry. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need."

— Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and 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. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you 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're a plague and we are the cure."

— Agent Smith, The Matrix

Literature

"Hate. Let me come to tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word "HATE" was engraved on each nano-angstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-BILLIONTH of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."

— AM, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Live-Action TV

"You see, humans... are a unique type of pest; multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straitjacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades! Each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before! WAKE UP, EAT, WORK, SLEEP, REPRODUCE, AND DIE! Everyone is just waiting... waiting for it all to be over, all while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness; I could not pretend. And then I realized... I didn’t have to."

— Vecna, Stranger Things

Music

"He stands and shouts
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
And disagree, well no-one durst
He's the best of course of all the worst
Some wrong been done, he done it first"

—Frank Zappa, "The Torture Never Stops"

"Since dawn of time the fate of man is that of lice
Equal as parasites and moving without eyes
A day of reckoning when men exist to burn
Countdown together now and say the words that you'll learn"

—Ghost (Band), "Year Zero"

Stand-Up Comedy

"I'm tired of this back-slappin' 'isn't humanity neat' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."

— Bill Hicks

Video Games

"My name is not important. What is important is what I'm going to do... I just fuckin' hate this world. And the human worms feasting on its carcass. My whole life is just cold, bitter hatred. And I always wanted to die violently. This is the time of vengeance and no life is worth saving. And I will put in the grave as many as I can. It's time for me to kill. And it's time for me to die. My genocide crusade begins here."

— The Antagonist, Hatred

"All of you ungrateful humans who took everything away from me will feel my loss and despair!"

— Professor Gerald, Sonic Adventure 2

Web Animation

"Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they're interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I don't like people in the plural and I've seen very little to change my mind about that."

— Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

Webcomics

Psycho Mantis: I don't consider myself human.
Revolver Ocelot: And people say we never agree on anything.

— The Last Days of FOXHOUND

Web Original

Certainly The Two Doctors can't be accused of having nothing to say about people... Yeah, the Doctor has human concerns in this story. But his concern with humanity seems largely to be disdain. Look at the interaction between Baker's Doctor and Peri throughout the story, especially coming off of the effortless camaraderie of the Troughton/Hines/Padbury team. Look in particular as Peri appears to mouth "asshole" at him after a particularly bruising bit of 'banter.' (although apparently the canonical epithet is 'I know' in response to the Doctor saying something snide about humans, I'd point out that the mouth motions are virtually identical) Troughton's Doctor may have been blind to humanity at times, but again, he at least always seemed to like people. Baker's Doctor seems to both understand them and frankly despise them.

— El Sandifer on Doctor Who, "The Two Doctors"

A few years ago, I went to the top of the Empire State Building with my kids. Somehow, we caught it on an off-peak day, so it was only a 10-minute wait or so up to the roof. And as we made our way up to the top, I saw all the cordoned-off areas to accommodate the lines. There must have been 10 different waiting areas, like you were being digested through a cow's stomach. It was traumatizing to see. So I would take full advantage of the freedom afforded by the eradication of the rest of the human race. It's what we all wish for on a regular basis, anyway.

— Drew Magary, Deadspin.com, "Why Nationwide Loves Its Dead Kid Ad".

I don't want to bring a child into a world where a girl's rape can go viral. I don't want to give birth to a child in a coastal city that will be under water in 100 years, to one where boys who grow up wanting to serve their country end up dying to protect Dick Cheney's stock portfolio. To a world where a religious institution that has, for 1500 years, harbored pedophiles and blood money, still holds political sway over a large portion of the country that controls the largest military in the world. I won't bear a child into a world of constant surveillance... There are days when life feels like the best gift I could possibly give to another person. And then there are days like today, when it seems like it might be best for humanity to pack it up and call the game. That's enough, folks. We've had a pretty shitty run.

— Erin Gloria Ryan, Jezebel.com, "Why Would I Ever Want to Bring a Child Into This Fucked Up World?"

misanthrope: Person who has put trust into another multiple times only to be let down time and time again. After this occurs so often hope is lost, and you start to see the reality of how disgusting humanity on earth really is. A vague thought that life on earth, is nothing but "self inflicted torture at the hands of death."

— Urban Dictionary

Web Video

Joey: But hang on! Surely you can't blame all of humanity for what a small group of criminal did to that church?
Valon: Oh, I don't.
Joey: What?! But you're with the Orichalcos! Surely you wanna wipe everyone off the face of the Earth, too!
Valon: Sure I do! But it ain't because I think humanity is evil or something. That's ridiculous!
Joey: Then why?
Valon: Simple, mate: I just f*cking hate people!

— Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

Western Animation

Chet Ubetcha: "...leaving hundreds injured and thousands without food or water."
Vicky: Ha ha! I love a happy ending!

— The Fairly Oddparents: "Deja Vu"

Tiger Claw: They will betray you. You know this. They care nothing for the human race.
Shredder: Nor do I.

— Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Real Life

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race — I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

— The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Although there are many non-human species — especially carnivores — that also cause a lot of suffering, humans have the unfortunate distinction of being the most destructive and harmful species on earth. The amount of suffering in the world could be radically reduced if there were no more humans. Even if the misanthropic argument is not taken to this extreme, it can be used to defend at least a radical reduction of the human population.

—David Benatar

Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species. If I had it in my power, I would stop at nothing to reduce every single one of you to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood. You deserve to be annihilated. I will give that to you.

—Elliot Rodger, perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings

Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man.
Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven.
Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.

—Zhang Xianzhong, inscribed on the Seven Kill Stele erected in Chengdu.

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