Top 115 Human Race Quotes

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen Hawking
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley
Not only will innovative technology create a more connected human race; it will normalize access to our most basic needs.
Grant Imahara
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Gore Vidal
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking
We need not worry so much about what man descends from

We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
It’s all too easy to imagine Trump issuing an ultimate, thermonuclear ‘You’re fired!’ to China, Iran, or another nation – and perhaps to the whole human race.
Lawrence M. Krauss
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow
There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don’t, they can’t pay their bills. Something’s wrong with that.
Megyn Kelly
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
James E. Faust
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Adam Clarke
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
David Bohm
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it’s a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.
Susan Vreeland
‘The Last Witch Hunter’ follows an immortal witch hunter played by Vin Diesel, and his job is to stop a plague from spreading and destroying the human race.
Inbar Lavi
The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!
Robert E. Lee
There isn’t a religion on earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race – women. They are all oppressors of women.
Susan Powter
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
Terry Riley
‘Star Trek’ speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow – it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Gene Roddenberry
The saddest part of the human race is we’re obsessed with this idea of ‘us and them,’ which is really a no-win situation, whether it’s racial, cultural, religious or political.
Dave Matthews
I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.
Joel Kinnaman
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd
To me, it’s the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?
Paul Allen
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
Edmund Morgan
Could that have been what happened to the human race – a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
Clifford D. Simak
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented – and unprecedentedly profitable – effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
L. Neil Smith
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Ellsworth Huntington
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
Gore Vidal
In general, the human race is still a young organism.
Jesse Kellerman
God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.
Hugh Ross
The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.
Kip Thorne
There’s one race that we have to worry about, and it’s the human race.
Michael T. Flynn
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
Henri Poincare
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
James Payn
For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about

For me, empathy is an existential question – it’s about the survival of the human race. That is, it’s imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.
Daniel Lubetzky
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It’s so ridiculous, but also astounding – we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
Yoko Ono
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
Dean Karnazes
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
From very early on in my childhood – four, five years old – I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected – I was very tall and skinny, and I didn’t look like anybody else, I didn’t even look like any member of my family.
Patti Smith
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Andrew Motion
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!
Marsha P. Johnson
I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don’t understand. It’s cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don’t.
Billy Porter
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn’t just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
Max Brooks
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Henry Miller
God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
Billy Graham
The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we’re soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.
Frank Darabont
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.
Yuval Noah Harari
I want to see what technology’s going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn’t completely obliterated itself by then.
Janina Gavankar
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
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father said, ‘You should do ‘A Day in the Life of Medicine.’ A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
Rick Smolan