Human Race Quotes - Page 39

• That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

  George Lucas

  Race, People, Purpose

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• The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.

  Tom Robbins

  Race, Gone, Stories

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• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Heart, Race

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1095, Delphi Classics

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• The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Yoko Ono". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2010.

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• We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Race, World, Partners

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

  James Mercer

  Race, Certain, Humans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Thinking, America

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Believe, Race, Balance

  "The Characters of Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2015.

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• The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

  Steve Redgrave

  Race, Natural Instinct, Avoiding

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• I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Believe, Space, Race

  Source: scienceblog.com

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• Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

  Alex Jones

  Race, Dna, People

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Race, Creating

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• The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

  Voltaire

  Men, Knowing, Race

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• The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

  James Jeans

  Mean, Science, Intelligent

  "Stars in Their Courses". Book by James Jeans (p. 153), 1931.

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• I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

  Voltaire

  Helping Others, Men, Race

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• The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

  John Adams

  Kings, Race, Faith Religion

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

  Ted Turner

  Inspiring, Race, People

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• The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Oil

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

  Voltaire

  Race, Law, Conquer

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• The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Errors, Race, Confusing

  "Man and Superman". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Night, Law

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.94, Macmillan

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• The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kissing, Race, Abuse

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?”, p.377, A&C Black

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• Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Fall, Men, Race

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “The Attribute to God”, p.78, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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