I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
And for an apple damn'd mankind.
Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
