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Human Race Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
- Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
- Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
- I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,…
- I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so…
- For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we…
- Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this…
- My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery…
- I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if…
- A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left…
More Human Race Quotes
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! — Robert Ballard
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. — Honore de Balzac
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its… — Dave Barry
- Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant
- You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. — Napoleon Bonaparte