I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Technology and innovation may aid, speed, support and even prolong the human race - but only compassion can save it.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The immense majority of even the noblest persons' actions have self-regarding motives, nor is this to be regretted, since if it were… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
But really, all we want, and I speak for the entire human race here, is contact. Someone to let us know that… — Iain S Thomas Copy Share Image
Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Love and hate; for only those who know how to hate know how to love. We keep this capacity; and as this… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The desert frightens me, I think. It looks too much like the seventh circle of hell. I'm afraid of damnation." "Why?" "Why?"… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think about was snuffling up under that sweet dimity like some… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake Copy Share Image
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race — Hugo Rahner Copy Share Image
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line, I’d developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure.” — Adrianne Brooks Copy Share Image
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image