Human destructiveness

Explore 6 quotes about Human destructiveness

The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Tristes Tropiques

Buy Tristes Tropiques at Amazon Buy Tristes Tropiques at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Human destructiveness

Author

Claude Levi-Strauss

Source

Tristes Tropiques

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Watch Terminator 2 Judgment Day at Amazon Watch Terminator 2 Judgment Day at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Human destructiveness Human nature

Speaker

The Terminator

Actor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Source

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Science fiction (film) Action Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Directed by James Cameron, Carolco Pictures/Pacific Western Productions/Lightstorm Entertainment/Le Studio Canal+, 1991.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H.G. Wells

More information about this quote

Topic

Education Human destructiveness

Author

H.G. Wells

Source

The Outline of History

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Wells, H. G. The Outline of History. George Newnes, 1920.

Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

Haile Selassie I

More information about this quote

Topic

Downsides of education Education Human destructiveness

Speaker

Haile Selassie I

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

Amharic

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Selassie, Haile. University graduation speech. 2 July 1963, University of Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters

More information about this quote

Topic

Human destructiveness Legacy

Author

Chuck Palahniuk

Source

Invisible Monsters

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.

George Louis Leclerc

More information about this quote

Topic

Human destructiveness Man and animals

Author

George Louis Leclerc

Source

Histoire Naturelle

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Leclerc, Georges-Louis. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Paris: Imprimerie royale, c. 1753.