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Quotes from Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins — Konrad Lorenz

1903–1989 Austria

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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality.... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual....

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973)

All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Konrad Lorenz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.