46 result(s) for World Destruction Quotes.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations."
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
"Modern technology owes ecology an apology."
"We are close to a time when all of humankind will be touched by the most unforgiving consequence of economic hubris: exhaustion of nature's capacity to tolerate our abuses."
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
"We have in our generation the opportunity, more than ever before, to make a very serious mistake."
"It is not a scientific problem we are facing. It is a human problem."
"If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on all major technological development for the rest of my life."
"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it."
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
"Until you start loving what you have, you will never appreciate what you’ve lost."
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, will you find that money cannot be eaten."
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
"Nuclear war is inevitable, that one day we would go to war, and that there would be a nuclear holocaust."
"The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
"One day the machines will be able to prove that only machines can think."
"In a world teetering on the brink of self-destruction, poetry is what makes us human."
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"I think technology is on a track to destroy itself. If we're not careful, I'm not sure we'll make it."
"Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing humanity, today, but one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, period."
"I'm afraid that the world is at a dangerous place. We are using up all the natural resources at a rapid rate, and we are not putting anything back."
"Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together to stop procrastinating."
"The Earth is brutally damaged from exploitation. It's reaching the end of its capacity, and we need to act."
"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it."
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
"We are close to a time when all of humankind will be outweighed by the products of their own creation."
"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
"Nature is not our mother. Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, be humbled by her power, but she has no authority over us."
