Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Reik

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Theodore Kaczynski

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Theodore Dreiser

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Thein Sein

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

Thelma Ritter

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Thelonious Monk

I never though much about race.

Terry Riley

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Margaret Sanger

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Margaret Sanger

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Margaret Mitchell

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

Margaret Halsey

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Margaret Halsey

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Margaret Halsey

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

Marcus Garvey

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Marcus Garvey

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

Marcus Garvey

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Marcus Garvey

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

Marcus Garvey

Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.

Kimi Raikkonen

You don’t drive races on paper.

Michael Kors

It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.

Peter Drucker

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Marlon Wayans

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

Marlon Brando

You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!

Max Muller

And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

Matthew Arnold

Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

Matt Kenseth

It’s been a long time since I’ve won a race in anything,

Maya Angelou

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

Max Weinberg

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Max Brooks

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

Max Brooks

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Mats Sundin

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

Mary Fallin

I've been through so many different political races.

Patricia Hill Collins

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.