Quotes by Race The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State. Alexis de Tocqueville race white war If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions. Alexis de Tocqueville race wisdom america Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time. Alexis de Tocqueville selfishness race rights The race to win turns us all into losers. Alfie Kohn loser race winning ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation". Alfonso Garcia Robles nuclear-disarmament race years The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. Alfred de Vigny eye race men I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Alfred Lord Tennyson savages race Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus Alfred Lord Tennyson race dark men I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology. Alfred North Whitehead race would-be religion I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race. Alfred North Whitehead race christian religion By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. Alfred North Whitehead learning race brain The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Alfred North Whitehead intelligence race doe The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir Alfred North Whitehead race may littles We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. Alfred North Whitehead race age success I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work. Alfred Rosenberg different race culture Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive. Alfred Russel Wallace race self science In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes. Alfred Russel Wallace intelligent race mean Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race Alfred Russel Wallace emigration race religion This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. Alfred von Tirpitz race white war I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race. Ali MacGraw compassion race animal «345678910111213»