Cities Quote by Helen Keller

“The floods which devastate regions, the fire of the lightning which reduces cities to ashes, the poison of the plague which afflicts provinces, are…

— Frederick the Great

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own…

— Carl Jung

Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred…

— Anonymous

Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal…

— Roberto Assagioli

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching…

— Theodore Parker

“It is always this impermanency that has made man seek something beyond the hills, investing it with permanency, with divinity, with beauty, which he…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own demise the…

— Jeremy Limn

“All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to…

— Don Berry

Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic…

— Tom Robbins

“So the Fall was a moral crisis but it has affected every part of man's nature, moral, intellectual, psychological, spiritual and physical. His whole…

— A.W. Tozer

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first…

— Edward Gibbon