Human Race Quotes - Page 11

• Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?

  Lottie Moon

  Memories, Race, Joy

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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• I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere as an anarchist poet. I am a poet, yes. Not an anarchist. I have no formulated political philosophy other than a general feeling of disgust for the majority of the human race.

  Raegan Butcher

  Philosophy, Book, Race

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• In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

  David Stockman

  Race, Today, Wealth

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.

  Andrew McMahon

  Commitment, Keys, Race

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• I didn't think too much of killing individual people. I use to think of killing the human race sometimes.

  Charles Starkweather

  Thinking, Race, People

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• When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.

  Michio Kushi

  Writing, Race, Environment

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• We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

  H. Allen Smith

  Laughter, Believe, Race

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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  Lynn Barber

  Race, Biographies, Interviews

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• It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

  Jack Finney

  Sex, Cat, Race

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• For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

  Bo Sanchez

  Being Yourself, Race, Be Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010

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• The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Race, Revolution, Disaster

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  Walter Lang

  Race, Today, Causes

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• The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• It seems to me a measure of the true perversity
  of the human race, that one of its very few
  reliably pleasurable activities should be the
  subject of so much hysteria and repression.

  Otto Gross

  Race, Hysteria, Should

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• The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Struggle, Men, Light

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• Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

  Jacques Ellul

  Race, Kingdoms, Matter

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• Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

  Susan Howatch

  Life, Moon, Men

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Jul 25, 2016

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• By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Race, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  "A Vindication of Natural Diet". Book by Percy Bysshe Shelley, archive.org. 1813.

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• The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Numbers, America

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.276, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

  Homer

  Friendship, Race, Soul

  Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.459, Lulu.com

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• Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Running, Fear

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, People, Culture

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.”, p.169, Steerforth

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• Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Unique, Creating, Issues

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• Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

  Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”

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