Human Race Quotes - Page 31

• They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

  Denis Kearney

  Race, Land, People

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• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  Jack Levine

  Disappointment, Race, Opposites

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Life Sucks, Progress

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Men, Race

  As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

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• The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

  Dave Matthews

  Religious, Winning, Ideas

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• A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Race

  "Dave Matthews: Conscience and Craft" by Alan Light, msn Entertainment News,

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• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Race, Giving

  The Summing Up

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Race, Gossip, Scandal

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• These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

  Anthony de Mello

  Compassion, Race, Silence

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• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Literature, Dignity

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• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Race, Enemy

  Tropic of Cancer (1934) p. 280

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• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Impact, Race, Risk

  "We're All Gonna Die!" by Gregg Easterbrook, www.wired.com. July 1, 2003.

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• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Song, Party, Eight

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  It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

  Liam Neeson

  Inspirational, Baby, Race

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• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  Yoko Ono

  Deep Love, Race, Very Deep

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• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Risk, Fracking

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• The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Magic, Asking

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• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Feelings, Body

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Planets, Feels

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

  Henri Poincare

  Race, Disease, Topology

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• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Race

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• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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