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  • Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Race Quotes , Sky Quotes
  • This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Race Quotes
  • History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Bullock Quotes , Past Quotes , Race Quotes
  • Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Blake Quotes , Race Quotes , Different Faces Quotes
  • The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Race Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Men Quotes , Race Quotes
  • All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abbas Kiarostami Quotes , Race Quotes , Differences Quotes
  • The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Real Quotes , Race Quotes
  • I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Race Quotes
  • Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Race Quotes