Human Race Quotes - Page 32

• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  Amartya Sen

  Race, People, Giving

  Amartya Sen (1999). “Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Patriotic, Race

  'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178

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• A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Blessing, Race

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Race, Rocks, Dying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  Freya Stark

  Race, Circles, Soul

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• The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Race, Civilization, Humans

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• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Race, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Men, America

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• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Anger

  "Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History". Arnold J. Toynbee's speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963.

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• It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Sadness, Race, Way

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• The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Past, Race, Ideas

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• The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Race, Dwelling

  Adam Weishaupt (2016). “Contra Mundum”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Cycling, Race

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• The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Race, Athletic, Type

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• You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, Race, Names

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• One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Race

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Destiny, Race

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

  Robert Frost

  Romantic, Stars, Home

  Further Range (1936) "Desert Places"

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• Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Baby, Morning, Clothes

  "Kill Bill: Vol. 2". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

  Francois Fenelon

  Country, Brother, Integrity

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• [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Race, Layers, Our Town

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• That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Blessed, Pride

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