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“Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.”

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Author:Murray Rothbard

“I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.”

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.”

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Author:David Bowie

“Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!”

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Author:Theophile Gautier

“All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.”

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Book:Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series

Source: Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series

“The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.”

“Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.”

“The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

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Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more liberal kind of Christianity and were happy with that. The problem is, for me, there was a process involved in moving from Pentecostalism to a more liberal theology, like Grace Church. What makes me different is that process didn't stop, and it took me all the way. In the end, I couldn't help feeling that all religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.”

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Author:Jerry DeWitt

“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”

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Author:Don Marquis

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”

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Author:Anthony de Mello