“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
Walter Elliot (1842–1928) American priest
“After all there is but one race — humanity.”
Act III
The Bending of the Bough (1900)
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Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933Related quotes
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942) Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel …
Breaking the Cycle (2003)
Context: I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, writer and playwright
Hindutva, p. 90.
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Jane Addams book Peace and Bread in Time of War
Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7 : Personal Reactions During War
Context: What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?
“Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 117)
“All selfishness is the great curse of the human race”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Hawarden (28 May 1890), quoted in The Times (29 May 1890), p. 12.
1890s
Context: All selfishness is the great curse of the human race, and when we have a real sympathy with other people less happy than ourselves that is a good sign of something like a beginning of deliverance from selfishness.
Michael Moorcock book Phoenix in Obsidian
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)
Source: Book 2 “The Champion’s Road” Chapter 3 “The Lord Spiritual” (p. 354)
“The human race has improved everything but the human race.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
In "Wages are Going Lower!" (1951), William Joseph Baxter wrote, "One might almost say that the human race seems to have improved everything except people." Variations of this quote have appeared since both with and without attribution to Adlai Stevenson, but no documented connection to Stevenson is known.
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