Race Quotes

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

Values matters well in a race.

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.