Absorption Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number…

— Christian Lous Lange

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

— Michelle Bachelet

“Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

— Richard Matheson

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if…

— Chinua Achebe

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

It is the business of future to be dangerous… The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which…

— Alfred North Whitehead

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst…

— Abraham Lincoln

“the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of…

— Martin Buber

“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic…

— John Steinbeck