Alas Quote by Herman Melville

Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning,…

— Stephen Charnock

“Heaven and earth. Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up by ruling over a desert. What imagination could we…

— Albert Camus

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking…

— Charles A. Beard

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Anonymous

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking…

— Ansel Adams

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or…

— Arthur Koestler

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been…

— Ansel Adams

When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will…

— Revilo P. Oliver

One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom…

— Immanuel Kant

The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the…

— Louie Giglio

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

— Hernando Cortes

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men…

— Winston Churchill