Quotes tagged ‘human race’

“Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Col. Dax, Kirk Douglas, imdb.com

“[Erik sees Sebastian Shaw in the void] Sebastian Shaw: Erik, what a pleasant surprise. So good to see you again. [Erik enters the void] May I ask you something? Why are you on their side? Why fight for a doomed race who will hunt us down as soon as they realize their reign is coming to an end? [Erik…”

— Zack Stentz, Matthew Vaughn, Ashley Edward Miller, Jane Goldman, Edie Lensherr, Éva Magyar, imdb.com

“Ralph Kramden, you just lost your membership card to the human race!”

— Leonard Stern, Sydney Zelinka, Ed Norton, Art Carney, imdb.com

“I began to suspect that there was something wrong with the treatment I was getting from the human race.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“The silent miracle of human progress is too slow and too fragmented to ever qualify as news.”

— Hans Rosling, theguardian.com

“The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, en.wikiquote.org

“The human race has today the means for annihilating itself—either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.”

— Max Born, books.google.com

“Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.”

— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org

“Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one staying put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face”

— Stephen Sondheim, imdb.com

“It didn’t matter who liked whom, or on what side a man might find himself, because they were all on the side of a world of very definite finite resources, and they would all suffer terrifying consequences if they drained to bare bones the world that had conceived the life of the human race, fostered…”

— Alan Shepard, amazon.com

“No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but…”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

“It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.”

— Dan Quayle, roanoke.com

“The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.”

— Kip Thorne, theguardian.com

“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, amazon.com

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

— Elie Wiesel, nydailynews.com

“We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com

“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com