Race Quotes by Mark Twain

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

— Mark Twain

Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

— Mark Twain

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

— Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

— Mark Twain

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to…

— Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human…

— Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill…

— Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do…

— Mark Twain

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I…

— Mark Twain

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

— Mark Twain

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a…

— Mark Twain

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron…

— Mark Twain

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…

— Mark Twain

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if…

— Mark Twain

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any…

— Mark Twain

“I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses…

— Mark Twain

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in…

— Mark Twain

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled…

— Mark Twain

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to…

— Mark Twain

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,…

— Mark Twain

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of…

— Mark Twain

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of…

— Mark Twain

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his…

— Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…

— Mark Twain

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them…

— Mark Twain

“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it…

— Mark Twain

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

— Mark Twain

when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

— Mark Twain

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the…

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

— Mark Twain

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more…

— Mark Twain

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several…

— Mark Twain