“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Humanity
Robert E. Lee on War
Mark Twain on Humanity
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” Continue reading
William Hazlitt on Humanity
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.” Continue reading
Frank Lloyd Wright on Technology
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” Continue reading
Stephen Hawking on Computers
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” Continue reading
William S. Burroughs on Politics and Science Fiction
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’ “ Continue reading
John F. Kennedy on War
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Society
“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” Continue reading
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