12 quotes
Education is not a function of any church — or even of a city — or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
When Worlds Collide (1933)
The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does — instead of half of it.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
Our commonest man, emulating his superiors, forges ahead with a brick on the safety valve of his conscience.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
There is no advance without strife.
After Worlds Collide (1934)
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all they do.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
But most men must first be persuaded that the task lies ahead and not behind — that we are infants still, with loaded guns for toys.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
Generation of Vipers (1942)
The waiters all are rude.
The bellboys scream and yell.
The swill is better than the food.
Goddamn the Mills Hotel.