Nature of man Quote by John Hersey Download Open image ““Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.”” — John Hersey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of man
“Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“In order to create a new world, we must first destroy the old one.” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our society due to ignorance.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“Whatever humanity inflicts on itself, nature can always go one better.” — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
“But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence,… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
