Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Ibrahim Hooper

Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.

Harold Washington

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Jamaica Kincaid

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

Jamaica Kincaid

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

Jamaica Kincaid

It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.

Jamaica Kincaid

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

Jamaica Kincaid

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.]

Immanuel Kant

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Immanuel Kant

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

By that time the race had enough stature that it didn't slow us down at all.

He threatened to take me out of the legislative race.

Neal Shusterman

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

Neale Donald Walsch

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

Neale Donald Walsch

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

Morgan Freeman

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

Morgan Freeman

First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America. There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president.

Jose Padilha

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Jose Mourinho

Maybe next season we can race.

Jose Mourinho

It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

Jose Bergamin

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

Jimmy Carter

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

John C. Calhoun

I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good. . . . I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

James Payn

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

James P. Hoffa

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

James Nasmyth

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

James Mercer

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

James Mark Baldwin

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Emerson Fittipaldi

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

Ellsworth Huntington

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.