Human Race Quotes - Page 10

• The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

  Murray Rothbard

  Race, Enemy, Liberty

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• I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Believe, Fate

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons

  Iccho Itoh

  Race, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

  Takashi Nagai

  Suicide, War, Mean

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• This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Marriage, Race, Body

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• We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

  Liam Neeson

  Motivational, Race, Silence

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• Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, Rights

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.72

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• We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

  Linus Pauling

  Peace, War, Winning

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• By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Peace, Government, Order

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

  William Blake

  Race, Poetry, Proportion

  Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

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• Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mother, Race, Poetry

  Johann Georg Hamann (2007). “Writings on Philosophy and Language”

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• I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Christian, Race, Religion

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Race, Opposites

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Fashion, Pain

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• Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Odin

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• My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Views, Two

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Race, Understanding, Humanity

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

  Gore Vidal

  Educational, Race, People

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

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• I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Religion, Would Be

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• Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Real, Responsibility

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer (1923), translated by C. T. Campion, 1949.

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• The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

  Ray Bradbury

  Science, Race, Volcanoes

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Race, Effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.439, Bantam Classics

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• Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64

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