Human Race Quotes - Page 24

• At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

  Tom Holt

  Ninety Nine, Race, Nuisance

  tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”

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• The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

  Margaret Murray

  Religious, Race, Views

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• The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

  Frank Darabont

  Race, Two, Insane

  "The human race is insane" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2008.

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• The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

  Eva Figes

  Race, Glowing, Males

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• Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

  Ernest Holmes

  Thinking, Race, Humans

  Ernest Holmes (2004). “Love and Law”, p.16, Penguin

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• The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

  Doug Casey

  Race, Government, Imagination

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• Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

  Jimmy Carter

  Race, Income, Taxes

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• Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

  Tertullian

  Fall, Men, Race

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.136, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.

  Robert Ley

  Compassion, Race, Pope

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• I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish. If these things do not take place, I will hereby consent to have my hand separated from my body.

  Martin Harris

  Christian, Religious, Race

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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• In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Race, Oil, Energy

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• Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience. This is not the only gate to that discovery, but it is the most ancient and universal, and potentially the most accessible to the majority of the human race.

  Rick Doblin

  Race, Discovery, Doors

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• Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Race, Diversity, Together

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

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• Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

  Zeena Schreck

  Race, Doe, Next

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• Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

  Vimala Thakar

  Race, Revolution, Steps

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• Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Race

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Race, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Compassion, Race

  Oscar Speech, www.oscarworld.net. 1993.

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• I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Race

  "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.

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• Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

  Max Brooks

  Race, Class, Zombie

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• To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

  George Washington

  Race, Design, May

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.201

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• I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

  Charles Bukowski

  Race, Add, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Children, Sheep, Race

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• The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Happiness, Wine

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