Best members & human-race Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.”

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Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.”

“NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.”

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Sometimes Facts Race Mistake Ten Members Eight Human Race Pigs Tails Made A Mistake Crooked Hog Swine

Book:The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

“We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.”

Thinking Humans Moments Care Race Knowledge Becoming Members Conscious Surrender Obligation Temptation Human Race Powerlessness

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.”

Humans Race Trouble Members Stupidity Proof Cards Human Race Parts Of Life Inferiority Inadequacy

Book:Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.”

Ifs Humans Spiritual Lying Race Possibility Planets Promise Members Highest Tradition Human Race Mastery

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

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

Humans Race Objects Members Treats Punishment Human Race Discarded Capital Punishment

Author:William J. Brennan

“There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.”

Source: 20,000 leagues under the sea: or, David Copperfield

“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”

Needs Humans Action Earth Values Belief Common Race Responsibility Members Environmental Obligation Human Race Deprived Stewardship Accord Be Confident

Author:Gilbert F. White

“When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.”

Firsts Humans Race Movement Members Blow Human Race Neglect Suicidal

Author:Maya Angelou

“What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love...”

Humans Purpose Growth Term My Own Race Seeing Horror Members Injustice This Life Human Race Love Life Veils

Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.”

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Author:George Carlin

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

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.”

Humans Race Mistake Destiny Terrible Members Human Race Glorious Dedicated Absurdity

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”

Humans Literature Race Members Regard Finance Human Race Brokers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“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.”

People Way Giving Humans Community Race Identity Members Indian Human Race Hinduism Identification

Book:Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998

Source: Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998

“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.”

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”

Feels Humans Wisdom Race Members Guilty Human Race Big Sur

Book:Big Sur (Annotated)

Source: Big Sur (Annotated)

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

Knows Men Needs Believe Humans Enough Belief I Believe Race Members Prejudice Human Race

Author:Mark Twain

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