Human Race Quotes - Page 40

• Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Healing, Race, Participation

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• Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

  Vikram Seth

  Race, Rivers, Long

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.1070, Penguin Books India

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• [...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Race, Triumph

  "Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, books.google.ru. October 23, 2008.

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• I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Men, Race

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• The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fear, Mean, Race

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Race, Knees

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.218, Vintage

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• The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, World, Prison

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• One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Race, Work Out

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Men, Race

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

  C.D. Payne

  Race, Boredom, Humans

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.182, Broadway Books

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• for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

  Rod Serling

  Peace, Fear, Race

  "Fictional character: narrator". "The Twilight Zone. The Shelter", www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

  Anne Rice

  Race, Ideas, Evil

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

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• I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Tired, Men

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• If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

  Heather Brewer

  Race, Leader, Example

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.80, Penguin

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• Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Ideas, Race

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Home, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.403, Macmillan

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• What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Blood, Political

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

  Gore Vidal

  Race, Disaster, Humans

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• My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

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• As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

  David Platt

  Wrath, Race, Hands

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• Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

  Max Brooks

  Race, Humanity, World War Z

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• Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Song, Wine

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

  Albert Camus

  Race, Heaven, Cost

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.81, Vintage

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