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;void(0)) . . . HUMAN RACE (THE) [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: BACHELORS BOYS BROTHERLY LOVE CITIES CIVILIZATION CONFORMITY CROWD (THE) CUTURE, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES DAUGHTERS EMPIRE EVOLUTION FAMILY FATHERS FOLLOWERS GIRLS GOVERNMENT GROUPS HUMAN NATURE HUMANITY (below) HUSBANDS ILLEGAL ALIENS IMMIGRATION IMPERIALISM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LEADERS, LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAJORITY (THE) MAN, MANKIND MASSES (THE) MEN, MEN & WOMEN, MEN v. WOMEN MOB MOTHERS NATIONALISM, NATIONS NEEDS PATRIOTISM PEOPLE POPULAR(ITY) PROGRESS PUBLIC (THE) PUBLIC OPINION RACE, RACISM REVOLUTION SCIENCE AND SOCIETY SOCIETY STANDARDS TOURISTS UNITED NATIONS UNITY WIVES WOMEN WORLD A great library contains the diary of the human race. --George Dawson (18211876) English minister. Address on the opening ot the Birmingham Free Library, as quoted in John Alfred Langford _The Birmingham Free Libraries..._, p. 29 [1871]. No Man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any Mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. --John Donne (15721631) English poet and dean of St. Paul's [16211631]. "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions", no. 17 [1624] Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. "Four Quartets' Burnt Norton" [1936] Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. --William Ralph Inge (18601954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [19111934]. _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 (18421910) American philosopher. In "Atlantic Monthly" [December 1904]. Console yourself, dear man and brother, whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality, or the world would be at a sad pass shortly. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners" in the essay collection _My Study Windows_ [1871]. 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!* --Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (18611922) Scottish scholar, poet and author. "Wishes of an Elderly Man" [1923] [Of Neanderthal man:] 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. --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 (16671745) 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] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_, ch. XXXI [1889] [Cannibalism is] a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. --Lyall Watson (19392008) 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.18181895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Wahington D.C. [22 October 1883]. The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of ther number, is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with evil in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil in someone else. The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_, ch. I [1859] 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 (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. 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 Libertι! Ιgalitι! Fraternitι! 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. ;void(0)) 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. --attributed to Isaac Asimov (19201992) Russian-born American author. 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. --Bible "Ephesians" 6:12 NKJV 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 (18881965) 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 (18921971) American theologian. _An Interpretation of Christian Ethics_ [1935] . . see: "KINDNESS" for related links [Remark upon accepting an award for humanitarian work:] I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. --Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (18941974) American entertainer. Quoted in "Washington Post" [20 August 1968]. It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. --Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. Quoted in "Reader's Digest", vol. 117 [1980]. - ...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 (18751965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. _The Philosophy Of Civilization_ [1923] . . see: "CHARITY" see: "GOODNESS" see: "KINDNESS" see: "PHILANTHROPY" see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. --James Baldwin (19241987) American author and playwright. _No Name in the Street_ [1972] Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "Man Was Made to Mourn", st. 4 [1786] Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (18141880) American clergyman and author. _Living Words_ [1861] An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. _The Task_, bk. VI [1785] 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 (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. Letter to Amrit Kaur [29 August 1947]. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. There may even be a certain antagonism between love of humanity and love of neighbor; a low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. "Brotherhood" in _The Ordeal of Change_ [1963]. Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. --Immanuel Kant (17241804) Prussian philosopher. Attributed in Isaiah Berlin "Two Concepts of Liberty", lecture at University of Oxford [31 October 1958]. What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one, and that is not only true, but identical; that men always act from self-interest. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. "Mill's Essay on Government" [1829] - 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 incommoding their betters. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] - The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. _Sunday After The War_ [1944] [Of the Hindenburg, 6 May 1937:] Oh, the humanity! --Herbert Morrison (19051989) American broadcaster. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. --Robert Owen (17711858) 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 (15641616) English dramatist. _King Lear_, IV, vi [1605-1606] I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. --attributed to George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. Humanity is much more shown in our conduct towards animals, where we are irresponsible, except to heaven, than towards our fellow-creatures, where we are restrained by the laws, by public opinion, and by fear of retaliation. --Horace Smith (17791849) English poet and novelist. _The Tin Trumpet_ [1836] Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy (18281910) Russian novelist. _Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian_ [1900] We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. 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