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;void(0)) . . . HUMAN RACE (THE) [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: BOYS BROTHERLY LOVE CITIES CIVILIZATION CLASS WARFARE CONFORMITY CONVENTIONAL WISDOM CROWD (THE) CUTURE, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES EMPIRE FAMILY FOLLOWERS GROUPS HUMAN NATURE HUMANITY (below) ILLEGAL ALIENS IMMIGRATION IMPERIALISM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LEADERS, LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAJORITY (THE) MAN, MANKIND MASSES (THE) MEN, MEN & WOMEN, MEN v. WOMEN MOB NATIONALISM, NATIONS NEEDS PATRIOTISM PEOPLE POPULAR(ITY) PROGRESS PUBLIC (THE) PUBLIC OPINION RACE, RACISM REVOLUTION SCIENCE AND SOCIETY SOCIAL CHANGE, SOCIETY STANDARDS TOURISTS UNITED NATIONS UNITY WOMEN --- Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. --T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist, "Four Quartets' Burnt Norton" [1936] Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. --William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911-1934], _More Lay Thoughts of a Dean_ [1931] Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one who preys systematically on its own species. --William James (1842-1910) American philosopher, in "Atlantic Monthly" [December 1904] I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought *What Jolly Fun!* --Walter Raleigh (1861-1922) English lecturer and critic, "Wishes of an Elderly Man" [1923] Notwithstanding, if he could be reincarnated and placed in a New York subway--provided that he were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing--it is doubtful that he would attract any more attention than some of its other denizens. {of Neanderthal man} --William L. Strauss and A.J.E. Cave, in "Quarterly Review of Biology" [Winter 1957] Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. --Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist, letter to Pope [29 September 1725] There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot [Cannibalism is] a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. --Lyall Watson (1939- ) South African born botanist, biologist, and author. _The Financial Times_ [15 July 1995]  . . see "FREEDOM" for related links No man can put a chain around the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.1818-1895), speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Wahington D.C. [22 October 1883] We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want. . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear. . . anywhere in the world. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) American Democratic statesman, President [1933-1945], message to Congress [6 January 1941] - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. --Magna Carta [1215], clause 39 Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité! Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood! --anon, motto of the French Revolution, but of an earlier origin We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. --anon. The American Declaration of Independence, [4 July 1776]; from a draft by Thomas Jefferson  HUMANISM . . We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational . . . Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. --Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-born American author If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed. --T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist, "Humanism of Irving Babbit," _Selected Essays_ [1917-1928] A humanism which is sustained only by the obvious marks of common humanity breaks down when the hysteria of conflict destroys or obscures those obvious human ties. --Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American theologian, _An Interpretation of Christian Ethics_ [1935] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. --The Bible, Ephesians 6:12 NKJV . . see "KINDNESS" for related links - ...Over the course of the succeeding decades, as the laws of war — or, as they came to be known, international humanitarian law — evolved and expanded, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] became the legally recognized guardian of these regulations. And yet, the paradox of the success of the Red Cross movement, the advance of international law, and, after World War II, the worldwide diffusion of the concept of human rights and new authority for it, is that all these developments coincide not with a new era in which Kant's perpetual peace was ushered in, but rather with the hideous course of the twentieth century itself. No century has had better norms and worse realities. In the period from the signing of the first Geneva Convention and the subsequent conferences of 1899 and 1907 in The Hague, to the outbreak of World War I, the rights of individuals in wartime were expanded, "aggressive force" was outlawed, and protections for civilians were expanded. Then came the mass slaughter in the trenches of World War I and the Armenian genocide to make a mockery of all that. In the aftermath of that war, in a Europe shocked by the toll exacted by gas attacks, another Hague conference outlawed the use of poison gas and other forms of chemical and biological warfare. Three years later, the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war itself. Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first allow to set international legal norms. Nine years later, the Japanese army was murdering Chinese civilians by the hundreds of thousands in Nanking. Four years after that, the Germans put in motion the Final Solution. Four years after that, twenty million Russians were dead and Europe was in ruins. --David Rieff, _A Bed For the Night, Humanitarianism In Crisis_ - Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. --Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. _The Philosophy Of Civilization_ [1923] TOPICAL It's typical of this country's humanitarianism that President Bush put aside politics and immediately offered the government in Tehran — one he's labeled part of an Axis of Evil — all kinds of charitable aid. And it speaks volumes to the overwhelming nature of this tragedy that the mullahs agreed to accept help from a government that they've labeled the "Great Satan." (After a similar quake back in 1990, Iran was initially unwilling to welcome international help.) [. . . ] But the mullahs still hold sway — and their influence could be seen in the unfortunate announcement that Iran would refuse any humanitarian aid from the "Zionist regime" of Israel, which has aided in similar disasters over the years. How sad that even in a human disaster of such proportions, the radical Islamists cannot for a moment relax their hatred of the Jewish state. Which, ultimately, may be a warning to those who would move too quickly to politically exploit this catastrophe. Even as Tehran tries to recover from its tragedy, it must be remembered that the Islamic revolution — and all it produced — still lives in Iran. --editorial page, _New York Post_"IRAN'S EARTHQUAKE" . . see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. --Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish poet and songwriter, "Man Was Made to Mourn" [1786], st. 4 You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. --Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Prussian philosopher, in _The Borderlands of Science_ by Michael Shermer The existence of most human beings is of absolutely no significance to history or to human progress. They live and die as anonymously and as nearly uselessly as so many bullfrogs or houseflies. They are, at best, undifferentiated slaves upon an endless assembly line, and at worse they are robots who leave their mark upon time only by occasionally falling into the machinery, and so incommodint (worry or annoy) their betters. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic - Oh, the humanity! --Herbert Morrison (1905-1989) American broadcaster The Hindenburg - All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. --Robert Owen (1771-1858) Welsh-born socialist reformer (Speaking to his wife about his business partner, William Allen [1828]) When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, _King Lear_ [1605-1606] I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 {EB} We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. 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