Race Quotes

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.

Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i. e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Marcus Terentius Varro

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.

Julian the Apostate

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.

Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

Jon Bentley

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

H. L. Mencken

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

John Train

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Cicero

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Eric Hoffe

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Mark L. Mika

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Saint Augustine

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.

William Gurnall

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain