Race Quotes

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Thomason

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Herbert Westren Turnbull

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.

Golda Mei

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Unknown

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Immanuel Kant

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

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

Don Marquis

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

Marcus Garvey

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliot

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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