“it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it .... what man calls civilization always results in deserts .... men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn .... it wont be long now it wont be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone”
“Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.”
“Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we ll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.”
“On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet s history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.”
“A winner smiles and a looser cries. The God looks at them and says, Sorry, guys!”
“Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
“In the year 2025, the best men don t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .”