Race Quotes - Page 35

• Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

  Kelly Miller

  Country, Age, Genius

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Traveller

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.88, Routledge

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• Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Secret, Nuclear

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.131, Routledge

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• The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

  Bertrand Russell

  May, Century, Ends

  Playboy Interview, Volume 10, No. 3 (p. 42), March 1963; later quoted in Kenneth Rose "One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture" (p. 39), 2004.

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• As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Mean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

  Octavia Spencer

  Issues, People, Worry

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. February 21, 2013.

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• The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

  Plato

  Guardian, Pure

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• The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Views, Important

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• I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.

  Jeff Burton

  Thinking, Goal, Competition

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• Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

  Kyle Petty

  Eight, Track, Car

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• The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.

  Ken Schrader

  Running, Night, Light

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• I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Night, Entering

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• The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Perfection, Damnation, Salvation

  1867 The Age of Reason, Mar.

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• America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Color, America, People

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• We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Strong, Communication, Writing

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Errors, Understanding

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• Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Order, Habitat

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.561, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Support, Soul

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.37, Broadway Books

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• There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gambling, Differences, Track

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

  Ben Elton

  Opera, Lasts, Fluffy

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• I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language

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• This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

  Langston Hughes

  Art, America, Individuality

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.32, University of Missouri Press

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• The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, People, Humanity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

  Gore Vidal

  Character, Thinking, Class

  Gore Vidal (1992). “Screening history”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Understanding, Honest, Armament

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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