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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. -- Nic Pizzolatto
I shall take my present leave-but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that...His Divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in...the wise measures on which the success of this government must depend. -- George Washington
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. -- Dan Quayle
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. -- Aldous Huxley
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. -- Abraham Maslow
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. -- E. M. Forster
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. -- Mark Twain
I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. -- Peter Steele
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. -- Henry Adams
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. -- Emma Goldman
The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another. -- Frank Darabont
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. -- Amartya Sen
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. -- Dave Matthews
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. -- Andre Norton
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. -- Fred Woodworth
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. -- Ted Turner
I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. -- Peter Steele
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. -- Robert A. Heinlein
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. -- Stephen Hawking
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal. -- James E. Faust
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
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
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! -- Jules Verne
With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Poetry fettered fetters the human race. -- William Blake
Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons -- Iccho Itoh
Is the human race a universal constructor? -- David Deutsch
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. -- H. L. Mencken
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. -- Robert Barron
The human race is governed by its imagination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race. -- Barbara Mertz
How can you help the human race progress? -- Simon Sinek
History is the zoology of the human race. -- Franz Grillparzer
In the human race today, you came last. -- Spike Milligan
There is only one race, the human race. -- Robert Sobukwe
Cities are the sinks of the human race. -- Henri Rousseau
Books are the curse of the human race. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I'm a tired runner in the human race. -- Huey Lewis
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race. -- Mark Twain
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race. -- Pete Seeger
My photographs recall the memories of the human race. -- John Coplans
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. -- Bertrand Russell
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. -- William E. Gladstone
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited. -- Henry Ford
There isn't any way to libel the human race. -- Mark Twain
The only race I know is the human one. -- Albert Einstein
War itself is the enemy of the human race. -- Howard Zinn
The white race is the cancer of human history. -- Susan Sontag
Lights of the world, and stars of human race. -- William Cowper
I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race. -- Charles Kennedy
There is only one race ... and it is human! -- William P. Young
Who included me among the ranks of the human race? -- Joseph Brodsky
Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well. -- Gore Vidal
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery. -- Tom Perrotta
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In order to survive, the human race must defend itself. -- Erica Brown
No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human. -- Sixeye
The human race will be the cancer of the planet. -- Julian Huxley
The human race has been telling stories since it began. -- Doris Lessing
It's the risk takers that move the human race forward. -- Brian Tracy
Kids are always the only future the human race has. -- William Saroyan
A great library contains the diary of the human race. -- Geraldine Dawson
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. -- Vernor Vinge
You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race. -- John Lennon
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized -- Rod Serling
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy? -- Charles Bukowski
The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned. -- Mark Twain
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. -- Horace
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. -- John Michael Hayes
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. -- Orson Scott Card
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. -- Rae Foley
Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving -- Terry Pratchett
Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful. -- D. James Kennedy
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. -- Gore Vidal
Education is the single most important job of the human race. -- George Lucas
There's a smile on my face for the whole human race. -- Alan Jay Lerner
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race. -- Hortense Calisher
I believe there is only one race - the human race. -- Rosa Parks
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. -- Jack Kerouac
Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race. -- Jimmy Carter
Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. -- Anthony Bourdain
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey
Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? -- Steve Toltz
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace. -- William Blake
Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race. -- Josephine Tey
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells
Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race. -- Jimmy Cannon
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire, -- Hugo Chavez
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. -- Thelma Ritter
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. -- Stephen Hawking
The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race. -- Pope Francis
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. -- John Milton
Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race -- Tony Blair
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. -- Mark Twain
I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it. -- Janice Tanton
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. -- Orson Welles
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. -- Stephen Hawking
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race. -- Heather Brewer
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. -- Swami Vivekananda
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. -- Ovid
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race. -- Bella Abzug
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. -- Aldous Huxley
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. -- Thornton Wilder
The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them. -- David Gerrold
All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming. -- Eda LeShan
We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race. -- Sarah Ruhl
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. -- Bertrand Russell

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