Human Race Quotes - Page 17

• The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

  Emma Watson

  Race, Wings, Bird

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• Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

  Jane Addams

  Philosophy, Boys, Race

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

  Toni Morrison

  Race, Racism, Social

  "Toni Morrison Breaks Down The Reality Of Race On The Colbert Report" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Sky, Cities

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.14

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• Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Brother, Men, Race

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• I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Space

  "Zero Gravity Plane Ride Lets Famed Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking Escape His Wheelchair". "NBC Today Show" with Meredith Vieira, archives.nbclearn.com. April 27, 2007.

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• The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions, a point of pure truth This little point is the pure glory of God in us. It is in everybody.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Destiny, Race

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Race, Law, People

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• There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

  Mike Rounds

  Race, People, Today

  Michael Rounds' State of the State Address, legis.sd.gov. January 11, 2005.

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ocean, Inspiration, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It is no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you simply have to run faster then others to survive

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Running, Race, Knowing

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Children, Winning

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• There isn't any way to libel the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Way, Libel

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9238, Delphi Classics

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• The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Humans, Ought

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

  Mark Twain

  Race, Important, Together

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Grind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

  Mark Twain

  Bags, Damn, Humans

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

  Mark Twain

  Nice, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Race, Lust

  Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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