Top 200 Hank Green Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We strive to live in a world that places tremendous, even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society, but I think part of the reason we strive for it is because we need to signal that our existence is intrinsically meaningful.”

— Hank Green

102. “Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.”

— Hank Green

103. “Well, if I weren’t so insecure, I would have had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to spend every day of my life getting really good at seeming confident.”

— Hank Green

104. “I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.”

— Hank Green

105. “My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.”

— Hank Green

106. “Sometimes you need to buy a red dress because the alternative is the nightmare of loss.”

— Hank Green

107. “My annoyance became frustration, which became anger, which became hate, and hate is a long-burning fuel.”

— Hank Green

108. “I miss that life so much I would end every panda to get it back.”

— Hank Green

109. “I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.”

— Hank Green

110. “Fear is an even better fuel than anger.”

— Hank Green

111. “I was mad because this moment was supposed to be simple, and it was not.”

— Hank Green

112. “I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”

— Hank Green

113. “We need more completely sane people doing completely crazy things.”

— Hank Green

114. “Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.”

— Hank Green

115. “Where is the president at this Time of Need! Probably playing shuffleboard or having her period!’ It’s not my fault I like shuffleboard so much. I always say, add up all the time every other president has spent golfing and tell me that my shuffleboard habit is bad for America.”

— Hank Green

116. “We are all bat people.”

— Hank Green

117. “But one thing that I didn’t anticipate was that, in creating the April May brand, I was very much creating a new me. You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.”

— Hank Green

118. “God cares for everyone, but society is supposed to as well. We strive to live in a world that places tremendous, even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society.”

— Hank Green

119. “It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”

— Hank Green

120. “They had jackhammered under the one in Oakland. It remained there, hanging above the space where the sidewalk had been.”

— Hank Green

121. “There are a lot of self-help bros who will tell you that you need to dangle over the edge without a net to really drive achievement. I used to believe this because it has a little piece of the truth. The larger picture, of course, is that being deprived of safety tends to make people anxious, reactive, and unproductive. p37.”

— Hank Green

122. “So you officially have an employee. They make your life easier, but only if you use them.”

— Hank Green

123. “I know that you’re going to have a very complicated lifer in the next weeks and months, and then you won’t have time for much else. But I also know that having someone that you care about and who cares about you might help keep you connected to reality.”

— Hank Green

124. “The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”

— Hank Green

125. “I don’t think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.”

— Hank Green

126. “Their constant attacks meant I never had to doubt my message.”

— Hank Green

127. “Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.”

— Hank Green

128. “You are so... human. You still think it has to be someone. It wasn’t anyone, it was all of you.”

— Hank Green

129. “If we do not let people know that it is possible to be different, the ones who are different will live their entire lives in a kind of cultural prison.”

— Hank Green

130. “What if you want to get across a busy intersection, but you can’t stop? What if you can’t even slow down? Because that’s where you’re at right now. Right now, humanity has to keep accelerating simply to support itself. But from left and right, massive hulks threaten to knock into you. Pandemics, climate change, bigotry, inequality, wars, water scarcity, sea level rise, and some that you do not enough to see yet. You have to dodge them, but you cannot stop, and you cannot slow down.”

— Hank Green

131. “It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.”

— Hank Green

132. “We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you’re willing to do whatever it takes. That’s exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”

— Hank Green

133. “Oakland Carl was the only Carl in the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Franciscans were, frankly, offended.”

— Hank Green

134. “Your life is written on this body, and I love every piece of it.”

— Hank Green

135. “These men – sorry, but it usually is men – don’t care who gets hurt because they’re telling themselves a story in which they’re the hero.”

— Hank Green

136. “Powerful people always thought they had the solutions. What they couldn’t see was that their power was, itself, the problem.”

— Hank Green

137. “As is often the case, it was the easier choice to make and the more difficult choice to live with.”

— Hank Green

138. “Being annoyed by carefully crafted internet personas was part of my carefully crafted internet persona. Even.”

— Hank Green

139. “And frustrating because, good lord god almighty, I know that you are a good person, but the last thing you need is some other sign from heaven that you are special.” She sighed.”

— Hank Green

140. “It’s so easy to forget being wrong.”

— Hank Green

141. “I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”

— Hank Green

142. “You’re talking about yourself like you’re a tool, but you’re a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.”

— Hank Green

143. “The worst thing about these people is that they didn’t usually feel fear themselves; they were just using it to get attention and grow their influence. As long as this tactic worked, they would never stop.”

— Hank Green

144. “The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. so the momentyou achieve perfect coolness is simultaniously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care.”

— Hank Green

145. “This was always the way of these strongmen. They would craft the fear so carefully and then toss it into the world for everyone to use. And when someone took that fear and destroyed with it, they were just “unstable” or “mentally ill.”

— Hank Green

146. “It turns out pundits don’t want to talk about what’s happened; they want to use what’s happened to talk about the same things they talk about every day.”

— Hank Green

147. “One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”

— Hank Green

148. “But your real is real whether you deal with it or not.”

— Hank Green

149. “It was telling that he had taken responsibility for the thing that he did... but he did not mention the things done in his name. This was always the way of these strongmen. They would craft the fear so carefully and then toss it into the world for everyone to use. And when someone took that fear and destroyed with it, they were just “unstable” or “mentally ill”.”

— Hank Green

150. “You do the things you have to do in the order you have to do them.”

— Hank Green