#human race

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ↗

— Mark Twain

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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#human #human race #overestimate #race

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#effort #encouraged #human #human race #individuals

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ↗

— William Blake

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ↗

— William Blake

#fettered #fetters #flourish #human #human race

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#bicycle #despair #every #every time #future