Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Golding

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Walter Lang

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Walter Lang

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

Walter Lang

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

William Irwin Thompson

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

Wilhelm Reich

I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.

Walter Russell

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

Walter Scott

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.

William Kingdon Clifford

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Winston Churchill

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

Winston Churchill

I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

Winston Churchill

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

Woody Allen

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

William Weld

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

William Shockley

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.

William J. Clinton

California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

Sanya Richards-Ross

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

Whitney M. Young

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

Whoopi Goldberg

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Warren Jeffs

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Saint Augustine

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Xi Jinping

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

Will Self

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

Will Self

There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply...the person who wants to read what I have written.

Will Rogers

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

W. E. B. Du Bois

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

W. C. Fields

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

Zora Neale Hurston

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Zora Neale Hurston

I was born in a Negro town.