Human Race Quotes - Page 30

• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

  William Blake

  Race, Painting, Proportion

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.201, Routledge

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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Music, Wisdom, Race

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Race

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

  Joseph Brodsky

  Race, Humans

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

  Italo Calvino

  Race, Should, Humans

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• Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Baby, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1993). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio”

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• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Sex, Taken

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• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Race, Political

  "Ceremonies Mark Constitution Day". The New York Times. Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, September 17, 1923.

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• Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

  Blake Edwards

  Race, Order, Unhappy

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

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• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Curiosity, Mind

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

  William E. Gladstone

  Selfish, Race, Curse

  Speech in Hawarden, Wales, May 28, 1890.

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• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Race, Vision

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

  Billy Graham

  Speaks Out, Issues, Race

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• Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Survival, September 11

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Dna, Engineering

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Space, Race

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

  Mark Helprin

  Race, Perfection, Victory

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Book, Race

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Progress, Brutality

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Bullying, Race

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

  David Icke

  Unique, Race, Tiny

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• No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Race, Track

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