Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services

Orson Welles, shortly before his death. In this photograph, Welles announces to the press that he has tested positive for the catch phrase Humanity and other non-essential services. Always sensitive to the nuances of irony, Welles soon dies of a broken heart.

Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services is a catch phrase you don't want to hear.

In the News

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  Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew setting up a perimeter defense against Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services.

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  Jekyll, the perfume for sociopaths, increases susceptibility to Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services.

Fiction cross-reference

• Catch phrase
• You and whose protein?

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Humanity (nonfiction)
• Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)
• Non-essential services (nonfiction)