Human Race Quotes - Page 19

• The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Ideas, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

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• The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Men, Race

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• It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, Race, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1908). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.

  Friedrich Ratzel

  Philosophy, Law, Names

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• If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Names, Race

  1776-88 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

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• I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Race, Want

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment.
  The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Black And White, Common Humanity

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• Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation.

  Pope Francis

  Race, Humanity, Risk

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• At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Intelligent, Race

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• Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Race, Effort, Encounters

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

  Josephine Baker

  Strong, Tired, Intelligent

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• George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Mistake, Race

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

  Jerry Garcia

  Race, Giving, Might

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• Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Compassion, Race, Law

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• Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Race, Listening, Stories

  Madeleine L'Engle (1989). “Sold Into Egypt: Joseph's Journey Into Human Being”, Shaw

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• Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Race, Members, Ill

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  War, Race, White

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• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

  Christopher Dawson

  Race, East, Culture

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• Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Husband, Race, Mutual Help

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.57, TAN Books

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• Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

  Julian May

  Running, Writing, Race

  Julian May (2013). “A Pliocene Companion”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

  Edward Teller

  Race, Inability, Extinction

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• When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Race, Giving

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Solitude

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• Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Race, Europe, Roots

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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• We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television. You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let’s get on with it, and everything will turn around.

  Phil Robertson

  Believe, Race, Television

  "What the Duck?" by Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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