Human Race Quotes - Page 27

• The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Race, Government

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.2063, Delphi Classics

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• We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, Race, Age

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1746, Delphi Classics

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• Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Thinking, Race

  "Stephen Hawking Urges Human Colonization of Other Planets". www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2006.

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• It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

  Thomas Paine

  Race, Earth, Common

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.398, Library of America

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• Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Race, Poverty, Sickness

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• I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief.

  John Stott

  Biblical, Hands, Race

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• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

  Terence McKenna

  Fire, Race, Drug

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• The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Love Is, Race, Two

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• The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

  Dante Alighieri

  Race, Levels, Situation

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• You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, Race, Government

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

  Fred Brooks

  Humility, Men, Race

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• Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Race, Helping, Burden

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• Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

  Woody Allen

  Race, World, Aggressive

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• If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

  Dave Barry

  War, Race, Names

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• Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

  Bill Engvall

  Helping Others, Thinking, Race

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.

  Christopher Titus

  Cat, Thinking, Race

  "Titus / Same Courtesy". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

  John Coplans

  Memories, Race, Photograph

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• We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Dirty, Intelligent

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• I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  "Nicole Ari Parker: The Good Life". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

  George Washington

  Wise, Prayer, Humble

  "How Will Trump's Inauguration Speech Stack Up Against History?" by Scott Martelle, www.latimes.com. January 20, 2017.

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• Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

  Mark Twain

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

  Roberts Liardon

  Attitude, Motivation, Race

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• States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely have in store for us as a human race, will involve some aspects of socialism.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Race, Socialism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Race, Humanity, Development

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• The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Two, Evil

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