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Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.”

Humans Growth Race Our Lives Generations Evolution Human Race Microcosm

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“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

“It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.”

People Humans Made Whole Race Hunger China Billions Human Race Contribution

Author:Xi Jinping

“Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.”

Humans War Hate Humanity Nations Causes Race Spread Human Race Contemplation Hymns Humiliating

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.”

People Humans Race Human Race Wedges

Author:Dolores Huerta

“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.”

Humans Has Beens Change Race Vision Conditions Possibility Human Race Daring Utopia Lofty Utopian Great Change New Possibilities

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”

People Inspirational Humans Children Has Beens Ends Games Grows Race Growing Up Reader Internet Human Race Free Speech Nuisance Till The End

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.”

Humans Long Able Race Football Survival Concern Mere Soccer Analysis Human Race

Book:The soccer tribe

Source: The soccer tribe

“Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.”

Men Humans Wisdom Political Politics Social Natural Animal Race Economy Human Race Liberalism Destroying Nature Of Man

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.”

Way Giving Firsts Humans Doe Wisdom Politics Race Economy Modern Mankind First Time Human Race Liberalism Modern Science Abundant Life

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“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.”

Men Humans Race Cities Break Atheism Duty Members Universal Positive Atheism Human Race

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”

“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”

Humans Religion Born My Own Views Race Atheism Source Disease Regard Misery Atheist Positive Atheism Human Race

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.”

Ifs Want Needs Humans Facts Shows Race Historical Hip Hop Ridiculous Hips Evolve Human Race Repeats Hops Categories Historical Facts Repeating History History Repeats Itself

Author:Immortal Technique

“My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.”

People Ifs Knows Way Humans Mean Inspiration Life Is Stuff Animal Numbers Race Rights Mankind Human Race Animal Rights Sustenance Tsunami Parish Bbq

Author:Ted Nugent

“"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.”

Thinking Men Years Humans Has Beens Seems Humanity Levels Race Human Race Destructive X Men Tribalism Mutants

Author:Michael Fassbender

“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.”

Humans Has Beens States Race Liberty Enemy Progress Tools Libertarian Radical Human Race Antisocial

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”

Humans May Long Earth Water Animal Pay Race Air Diversity Resources Clean Plant Species Weather Human Race Soil Predictable Minerals Dividends Clean Air Air And Water Mineral Resources

Author:Alex Steffen

“They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!”

World Humans States Race Ready Blow Human Race Idiocy

Author:Rene Barjavel

“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race”

Humans Race Authority Elements Human Race Lowest

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus

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

Humans Littles Belief Race Progress Human Race Idiotic Human Progress

Author:H. L. Mencken

“God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.”

Men Humans Self Jesus Christ Race Son Jesus Christ Crosses Destruction Determined Redemption Operations Human Race Dramatic Accomplished Cosmic Rescue Self Destruction Redeeming Salvage

Author:Billy Graham

“Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.”

Humans Running Left Simple Race Lays Human Race Primitive Commonality

Author:Dean Karnazes

“Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.”

Ifs Humans Two Might Three Chance Common Race Species Notion Beer Human Race Calamity Wipe Environmentalist

Author:Richard Conniff

“Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.”

Ifs Humans Form Individual United Race Sacrifice Adversity Constant Charity Affection Prosperity Rational Human Race

Author:Confucius

“A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.”

Humans Enough Race Civilization News Human Race Savages Organisms

Author:John Ciardi

“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.”

Humans Persons Made Individual Simple Answers Race Situation Cry India South Raised Complexes Excuse These Days Human Race Complexity Stride

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.”

Humans Littles Has Beens War Done Causes Race Disease Intelligent Endure Human Race Epidemics

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.”

Humans Faces Fun Race Limits Species Human Race

Book:Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented

Source: Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented

“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

“I believe there is only one race - the human race.”

Believe Humans I Believe Race Human Race White Race

Author:Rosa Parks

“Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.”

Humans Has Beens Joy Religion Passion Natural Sin Race Christianity Sweet Affection Human Race Gladness

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”

Humans Matter Whole Speak Hours Church Race Moral Issues Human Race Speaks Out Moral Issues

Author:Billy Graham

“The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.”

Humans Differences Race Profound Fishes Human Race Fishing Divides Worms Bait

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.”

Humans Heart Given Race Tears Human Race Mould

Book:The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.”

Humans Littles Moments Individual Interest Race Rights Plans Periods Comfort Increase Selfishness Human Race Disturbance

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.”

World Humans Sometimes Enjoy Race Sun Lows Rain Pressure Climate Endure Weather Psychological Human Race Ridges Trough Cyclones

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.”

World Humans Light Race Creation Human Race Cried Seriousness Gloom Cardinals Dickens Elevation Newman Sad World

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.”

Humans Forget Race Half Human Race Never Forget Apologizing

Author:Bella Abzug

“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

“Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Sex Race Jokes Ridiculous Human Race

Book:Parachutes & kisses

Source: Parachutes & kisses

“I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.”

Humans Has Beens Young Race Wonder Travel Human Race Migration

Book:Parents and children

Source: Parents and children

“Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.”

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.”

Thinking Humans Doe Stars Race Destiny Embrace Command Human Race

Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

“I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.”

Thinking World Humans May Doe Seems Human Beings Race Struggle Capacity Human Race Glorious Changing The World Remarkable Overwhelmed Exhilarating Being Overwhelmed

Book:Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

Source: Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.”

People Thinking Way Humans Two Hard Done Interesting Race Horrible Confusion Human Race

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.”

Humans America Nations Race Class Civilization Russia Instance Human Race Inferiors Degradation Enslavement

Author:Madame de Stael

“People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.”

People Humans Self Race Compassion Listening Dues Pity Human Race Now And Then Self Pity Sinking Dreary Membership

Author:Barbara Walters

“Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.”

Humans War Self Seems Causes Sleep Sin Race Virtue Daughter Resistance Human Race Laziness Persecution Status Quo Constancy Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

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