Human Race Quotes - Page 31

• If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

  Huston Smith

  Race, World, Endure

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• I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Race, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.133, BookBaby

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• He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.

  Stephen King

  Men, Race, Black

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Race, Silence, Use

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• I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.

  Dan Wells

  Race, Age, Saving

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, Kids, Men

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• If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

  Alan Watts

  Race, Cells, Organization

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.34, Souvenir Press

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• Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Race, Uncomfortable, Humans

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Men, Race

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.

  James Dashner

  Crazy, Kids, Eye

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• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

  Gore Vidal

  Reality, Race, Wells

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• You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

  John Edward Williams

  Military, War, Race

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Inspirational, Believe, Race

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

  Victor Hugo

  Courage, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Race

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• For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

  Bertrand Russell

  Equality, Thinking, Race

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• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Race, Turkeys

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• The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Freedom, Race

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• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Knowledge, Race, Progress

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Race, Should

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• It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

  Clarence Jordan

  Race, People, Together

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.76, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

  Harlan Ellison

  Peace, War, Race

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