Human Race Quotes - Page 34

• He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.

  Stephen King

  Men, Race, Black

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Race, Silence, Use

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• The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

  Carlton Mellick III

  Race, Missing, Needs

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• No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Race, Achievement

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.398, Scholastic Inc.

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• The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Joy, Done

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.396, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Girl, Race, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

  Marquis de Sade

  War, Men, Race

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• But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

  Jim Butcher

  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Race, Names

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Future, Character

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• Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, People, Desire

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 352), August 1988.

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• There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Race, Dying, Answers

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• We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Technology, Race

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• It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Race

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mirrors, Race, Looks

  "From Wales, A World Apart" by Jeff Miers, Buffalo News, January 07, 2005.

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• There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sleep, Race, Division

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.35, Penguin

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• This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

  Salman Rushdie

  Race, Different, May

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• It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Writing, Race

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

  Jack Vance

  Religious, War, Race

  "The Face". Book by Jack Vance, 1979.

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• I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Short Life, Loss

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Baby, Bullying, Anger

  "Education and the Social Order". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 31, 1932.

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• Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

  Orson Scott Card

  Race, Welcome, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.160, Macmillan

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