Nature of man Quote by Isaac Asimov

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

— Bram Stoker

“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget…

— Sherwood Anderson

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson

“Mankind has not changed in 10,000 years.”

— GE Paulus

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck