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“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage”. –Ibn Khaldun

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don’t want to change!” –August Dvorak

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party”. –Goldwin Smith

“The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state”. –Yehuda Ashlag

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises

“The image is one thing and the human being is another… it’s very hard to live up to an image”. –Elvis Presley

“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal”. –Giuseppe Mazzini

“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty”. –Maximilien Robespierre

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful god, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes”. –Gene Roddenberry