Creativity Quote by Justin Sane

Stripped of poetry and posturing, Justin Sane’s line lands like a refusal: refusal of tribal rankings, refusal of special pleading, refusal of the idea that anyone needs to earn basic regard. “Simply” does heavy lifting. It’s not self-deprecation; it’s a dismantling of hierarchy. In a culture that constantly asks people to declare a side, a label, a brand, “we are simply human beings” is a deliberate flattening of the playing field.

The second sentence sharpens the point by turning sentiment into obligation. “So it is important” isn’t a soft wish; it’s a moral baseline, framed as common sense rather than ideology. “Treat each other” makes the ethic reciprocal, not charitable: the speaker isn’t granting dignity downward, he’s insisting on mutual recognition. And “in that capacity” is quietly radical because it calls out the ways we often treat people in other capacities first: as enemies, consumers, bodies, votes, headlines, problems to manage.

Coming from a musician, the intent reads less like a philosopher’s maxim and more like stage-level communication: direct, repeatable, meant to travel. It fits the punk-adjacent tradition of plain language used as a weapon against dehumanization. The subtext is weary but insistent: we keep failing at this. The quote works because it doesn’t beg for agreement; it dares you to explain why “human being” isn’t enough.