Quotes About The Human Race

#1. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#2. There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Max Beerbohm

#3. 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

#4. Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

Robert Bellarmine

#5. I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

#6. The only race I know is the human one.

Albert Einstein

#7. Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

William Stanley Jevons

#8. Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag

#9. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Ovid

#10. There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.

Gabriel Chevallier

#11. even in the face of the devastating Trisolar Crisis, the unity of the human race is still a distant dream. The

Liu Cixin

#12. The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

Stephen Hawking

#13. 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

#14. We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.

Luke Gracias

#15. If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

#16. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#17. I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

Winston Churchill

#18. Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

Gloria Steinem

#19. Dr. Albert Frock: Well, how goes the gradual extinction of the human race, Lieutenant?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: I'm doing what I can to keep it orderly.

Douglas Preston

#20. Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

Barbara Mertz

#21. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

#22. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Edward Weston

#23. A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Thomas Hood

#24. The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

Steven Pressfield

#25. There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

William Stone

#26. So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

St. Jerome

#27. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

Agatha Christie

#28. There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Mike Rounds

#29. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse

#30. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

Loretta Chase

#31. When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Mark Twain

#32. We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#33. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

Stephen Hawking

#34. The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Thomas Paine

#35. And crawling on the planet's face,
some insects called the human race.
Lost in time, and lost in space.
And meaning.

Richard O'Brien

#36. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

Rebecca McNutt

#37. The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#38. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#39. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

#40. The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Walter Lippmann

#41. This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#42. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

C. JoyBell C.

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#44. Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Harriet Martineau

#45. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Neal Asher

#46. Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Vidkun Quisling

#47. The old man was brilliant at looking somber and energetic at the same time. If he hadn't been the executive of the largest governing body in the history of the human race, he'd have made a killing promoting health drinks.

James S.A. Corey

#48. Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.

Jack Holland

#49. Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries have defined for all of us.

Leslie Weisman

#50. We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

Yoko Ono

#51. I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

#52. The incarnation (becoming flesh) of God is at the very center of the gospel event by which God restores the true relationship between himself and the human race.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#53. Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

Jasper Fforde

#54. It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

Hortense Calisher

#55. Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I. F. Stone

#56. The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it ... It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

Dalai Lama

#57. The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

Jack London

#58. It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

Albert Einstein

#59. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

Garry Shandling

#60. Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

William Blake

#61. I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Pat Buckley

#62. Do you ever feel like we are the universe's date to a pig party?
Love,
The Human Race

Christy Leigh Stewart

#63. It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

Liam Neeson

#64. The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Baron D'Holbach

#65. Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Freya Stark

#66. Once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

Muriel Lester

#67. Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Vikram Seth

#68. Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
we are higher than human race in the food chain.

Toba Beta

#69. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! I

Anne Frank

#70. But no one had ever given the slightest thought to the curious coincidence that the rings of Saturn had been born at the same time as the human race.

Anonymous

#71. Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

William J. Brennan

#72. 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

#73. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

Salman Rushdie

#74. Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis

#75. I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets,

Stephen Hawking

#76. The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

John Romero

#77. One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.

P.G. Wodehouse

#78. The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.

Mayank Sharma

#79. Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

Mark Twain

#80. History is the zoology of the human race.

Franz Grillparzer

#81. The thing about the human race is, It turns up against everything or everyone that it loses its faith and belief on. And the saddest thing to witness is, Most of it have lost its faith towards humanity.

Akshay Vasu

#82. The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Bill James

#83. Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Henri Rousseau

#84. I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

Ashleigh Brilliant

#85. Is the human race a universal constructor?

David Deutsch

#86. One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

James Mercer

#87. If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

Macaulay Culkin

#88. Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move:

Seneca.

#89. I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

Markus Zusak

#90. Women
one half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Walter Bagehot

#91. Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin - sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

Billy Graham

#92. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.

Harlan Ellison

#93. For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art.

Dan Simmons

#94. If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer

#95. Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Ralph Ellison

#96. The human race is where everyone is under control by other people, no one controls his own life; the best thing you can ever do is to choose somebody who controls your life with good motive.

Aiden Mccoy

#97. Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Eric Hoffer

#98. We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Albert Camus

#99. I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

Nicole Ari Parker

#100. We are all human first and the human relationship regardless of race, religion or gender is one of respect.

Otis Teague