human race quotes

21 quotes

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Billy Graham

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.

Billy Graham

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Dan Quayle

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Vivienne Westwood

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

George Bernard Shaw

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Stephen Hawking

I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

Stephen Hawking

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Charles Bukowski

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Vivienne Westwood

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Mark Twain

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Aldous Huxley

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

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

Mark Twain