Race Quotes - page 4

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. (Rod Serling)
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. View quote
Carl Van Doren
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. View quote
Richard Savage
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. View quote
Victor Hugo
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. (Eric Hoffer)
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' View quote
Dave Barry
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. View quote
Mark Twain
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering for. View quote
Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. View quote
Mark Twain
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. View quote
Walter Scott
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. View quote
Emma Goldman
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. View quote
Aldous Huxley
All is race - there is no other truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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