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Race Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
- Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
- Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
- The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
- A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit…
- It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for…
- We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
More Race Quotes
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- 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
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to… — Donovan Bailey
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- 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