Race Quotes

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

Laughter, Human, Effective

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

Human, Another, Wishes

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Human, Often, Miss

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

Faith, Time, Everything

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

Human, Whole, Times

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

Human, Cowards, Carrying

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Confidence, Self

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Human, Earth, Pray

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

Nuclear, Bounce, Arms

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

Heart, Give, Nation

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Generosity, Gentleness

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

Battle, America, Fighting

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

Political, Human, Desire

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

End, Human, Die

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
Marilyn Monroe

Sports, Yourself, Fight

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

Good, Money, Learning

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Human, Quiet

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine

End, Himself, Run

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

Death, Daily, Thinking

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Learning, Why, Earth

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson

Men, Human, America

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Long, After, Short

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 Tullius Cicero

Life, Confidence, Self

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

Love, Power, Giving

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Win, Trouble, Rat

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

Together, Friends, Put

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone

Greatest, Human, Curse

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

Black, Proud, Pride

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry

Human, Why, Reason

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