Race Quotes

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

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

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.