Civilization Quote by Harry S. Truman

We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the…

— Gerald R. Ford

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been…

— Herman Melville

Use your powers for good instead of evil

— Nnedi Okorafor

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and…

— John F. Kennedy

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power…

— Gary Zukav

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

— Edward Gibbon

It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No…

— Frederick William Robertson

“There are certain things which are human nature," he asserted with an owl-like look, "which always have been and always will be, which can't…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must…

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson

“Humans possess no monopoly on the powers of preservation and destruction. Our ability to wield these powers with sustained intent, however, is unmatched on…

— Michael Perry