Human Race Quotes - Page 21

• There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

  Thomas Reed

  Race, Police, Humanity

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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• We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten. In fact, such a system negatively affects both men and women, holding us all back from true integration, collaboration, and union.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.85, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Moving, Future, Space

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• The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

  Agnes Repplier

  Hate, Cat, Race

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

  Janice Tanton

  Race, Humanity, Care

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• My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.

  Howard Zinn

  Memories, War, Race

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.196, City Lights Books

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• The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

  Max Born

  Peace, War, Mean

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• The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Believe, Race

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• There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.

  Steve Fowler

  Race, Long, Said

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• Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Passion, Race, Sight

  Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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• The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Rights, Race, Law

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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• Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.

  Fred Allen

  Stars, Honesty, Integrity

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• I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Space

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Race

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• Chacun exige d'e"  tre innocent, a'   tout prix, me"  me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Race, Heaven

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• There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Race, Hydrogen Bomb

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• The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Race, Majority

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.319, Psychology Press

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• How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Humans, Ifs

  "Bibliography of Bertrand Russell". Book by Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja, 1994.

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• In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Yellow, White

  "Power: A New Social Analysis". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers, 1938.

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• A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Race, Work Out

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

  Matthew Arnold

  Race, Iron, Suffering

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

  Isabel Paterson

  Race, Would Be, Half

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.93, Transaction Publishers

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• If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Betrayal, Race, Would Be

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.292, Transaction Publishers

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