Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Ellul

Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

Henry Rollins

When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

Henry Adams

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Henry A. Kissinger

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

Helio Castroneves

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

Henry Ford

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

Henry Ford

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Mahatma Gandhi

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

James Hunt

To hell with safety. All I want to do is race.

James Joyce

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

James Russell Lowell

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Kwame Kilpatrick

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

Kyle Petty

Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

Friedrich Engels

We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

Friedrich Schiller

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Lord Acton

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

M. Scott Peck

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

Lee Freedman

All week I was worrying about tacking that race on to the end of a six-race preparation. He had been in work for a long time.

Tom Danielson

This is my first race in 11 months,

Eric Hoffer

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Eric Hoffer

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Eric Hoffer

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Eric Bana

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

Enoch Powell

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Omar Epps

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.