Animosity Quote by Herbert Butterfield

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers…

— Ayn Rand

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

— Charles Krauthammer

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

— William Osler

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people…

— George Will

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or…

— Bertrand Russell

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being…

— Terry Pratchett

Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on…

— Andrew Harvey

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

— Margaret Mead

“From the Crusades to the Holocaust to the Cold War to the current “clash of civilizations,” the demonization of “the other” has played a…

— Arsalan Iftikhar

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

— R. C. Sproul