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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.

— Philip Wylie Generation of Vipers (1942)

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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)

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