Humanity Quote by Andre Maurois

“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ”

— Andre Maurois

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

— E. O. Wilson

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

— Karen Maitland

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,…

— James Hannam

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare