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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.


Orson Welles

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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUS It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
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MARK TWAIN The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
DON MARQUIS The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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DIANA WYNNE JONES I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race ...
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H. L. MENCKEN The institution of Royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
MARK TWAIN Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE War itself is the enemy of the human race.
HOWARD ZINN Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE One of the real reasons the BLACK RACE is highly retarded is because WE HATE BOOKS.
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BARROWS DUNHAM We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became ...
THOMAS SYDENHAM Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
LIU XIAOBO Keeping the human race in check must require a lot of multitasking.
PAUL MCAULEY Frail the human's race.
MONK FROST We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one rac...
DAN AYKROYD The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
VERNOR VINGE The so-called human race.
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KILROY J. OLDSTER The human race is governed by its imagination.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. MENCKEN Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature.
VOLTAIRE We're not separate races. There's only one human race.
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EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
MARGOT ASQUITH Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive
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DICK MURPHY Human nature is not of itself vicious.
THOMAS PAINE Nature is not human hearted.
LAO-TZU Nature is not human hearted.
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WILLIAM FAULKNER “One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their natur...
ZAMAN ALI One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.
ZAMAN ALI Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
E.M. FORSTER Amiable weakness of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON worthy of their human nature.
ERNEST MANDEL I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
PAT BUCKLEY Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
MARK FROST Law is born from despair of human nature.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Current Position: Tired from the human race.
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JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN Animosity is a temporary intrusion to the principle makeup of human nature of love, for no one is bo...
JONATHAN CHEN Nature is superior to human being.
MD. MUJIB ULLAH The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS I hate subtitles, I hate to wait… There is nothing into it, just typical ordinary human "hatred".
DEYTH BANGER Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
JOSEPH BRODSKY A great library contains the diary of the human race.
REV. GEORGE DAWSON A great library contains the diary of the human race.
GEORGE DAWSON have declared war on human nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution.
PAT BUCHANAN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN The Jews are members of the human race - worse I can say of no man
MARK TWAIN A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
JOSEPH ADDISON I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
SOPHOCLES Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
MARK TWAIN The human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons.
ICCHO ITOH Human nature is above all things lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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