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• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Men, Cells

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.350

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• The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sarcasm, Science, Race

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Race, Evil

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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• That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.307, University of Georgia Press

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• It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Men, Race

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• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

  James Agee

  Life, Peace, Children

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole races of animals-each group adapted to the physical conditions in which they lived-were successively created and exterminated.

  Roderick Murchison

  Science, Animal, Race

  Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth by Roderick Impey Murchison”, p.5

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• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

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• The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Bible, Book, Biblical

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• In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Science, World Government

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• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, War, Science

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Destiny, Race

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• [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Race, People

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• Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

  John Dickinson

  Race, Government, Liberty

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• Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

  Judith Martin

  Funny, Mother, Children

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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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. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Past, Race

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• Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

  John Oliver Killens

  Men, Race, Diversity

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• We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Race, Justice

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• Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Race, Justice

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• It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Race, History

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

  J. William Fulbright

  Suicide, Educational, Race

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• Education is the single most important job of the human race.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Educational, Race

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• Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Beautiful, Lying, Army

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