Body Quote by Clara Lucas Balfour

Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies

— Clara Lucas Balfour

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express…

— Richard Bach

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

— Anonymous

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is…

— E. O. Wilson

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to…

— Jack London

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

— Hans Kung

“The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

If millions are born millions must die.

— Robinson Jeffers

In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories, the statistics…

— Neil Gaiman

The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory…

— Narendra Modi

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

— Henry Miller