“The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Humanity
Laurens Van Der Post on Humanity
“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” Continue reading
Don Marquis on Progress
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.” Continue reading
George C. Marshall on Peace
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” 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
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.” 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
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
Frank Lloyd Wright on Technology
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” 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
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