Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Julian Bond

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

Mark Twain

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