Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Octavia Spencer

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

Jeffrey Lurie

It's not a race for speed, it's a race for success. When you're going to be the C.E.O. of a 32-team operation, it's not speed, it's quality.

Jeffrey Lurie

It's not a race for speed, it's a race for success.

Dick Pound

It's not going to go away. There is no urgency because he is not going to be in another race but there are some explanations that are going to have be given.

Each team has won this year on the other's ice. Now it is just a race to three wins.

It's been a while since I've won a race, ... It's about time.

That's the big news; he'll be running in the race for the first time.

It truly is probably the most special race that's every really been run here in this community.

It will be a tight race at league.

Tom Danielson

I've done the race in 2003 and 2005 and there was a big difference.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

Nelson Mandela

I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

Christopher Hitchens

It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

P. D. James

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Mark Twain

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

Nathan Myhrvold

Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe

R. Buckminster Fuller

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

Preston Manning

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Potter Stewart

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."

Joseph Rotblat

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

Joseph Brodsky

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Joseph Brodsky

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

Patrick Ness

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

Lafcadio Hearn

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

L. Neil Smith

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

Paul Johnson

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

Kingsley Amis

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.