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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Catch phrase
• You and whose protein?

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Humanity (nonfiction)
• Non-essential services (nonfiction)