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“The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.”

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Author:Max Born

“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.”

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Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.”

“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.”

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Author:Walter Lippmann

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.”