Accidents Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..

— Nelson Mandela

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what…

— Saul Bellow

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

— Bertrand Russell

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

— John Paul Jones

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

— Anita Roddick

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance…

— Clay Shirky

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

— Adam Ferrara

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization…

— C. S. Lewis

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our…

— Arthur Helps

Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for…

— Masaaki Hatsumi