Human Race Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

  Jerry Garcia

  Life, Peace, Hurt

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• Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

  Henry Iba

  Sports, Race, Psychology

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• 'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

  William Barnes Rhodes

  Kings, Echoes, Race

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• A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

  Janet E. Smith

  Rights, Race, Life And Death

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• If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

  Rebecca West

  Time, Race, Ideas

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• History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Race, People

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

  T. H. White

  Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic

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• It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

  Tom Perrotta

  Race, Misery, Humans

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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