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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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• How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Intelligent, Race, Forever

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• Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.156, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Religion, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.905, Library of Alexandria

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• The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Race, Environmental, Inability

  "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

  James Payn

  Race, Accomplishment, Example

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Two

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.291, Courier Corporation

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• I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

  Walter Raleigh

  Love, Fun, Silly

  "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)

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• In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Men, Compassion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

  Jonathan Swift

  Race, Missing, Would Be

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.347

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• The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

  Horace

  Courage, Race, Law

  "Carmina". I. 3. 25,

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• The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Race, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Race, Objectivity

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• Intelligence.  Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

  Thelma Ritter

  Race, Window, Trouble

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

  George Carlin

  Country, Adventure, Thinking

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• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Race

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• The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Race, Interesting

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.48, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Race, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.

  Leo Baekeland

  Ignorance, Humility, Humble

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