“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.” BookStatesHumanityLostWaterImaginationInterestingSeaLandDangerousPlanetsCivilizationLessonsNormalOppositesDifficultyIncreaseErrorsBoundsSpreadSurfaceSaltBarbarismHistory BooksSavageryRaritySalt Water Book:Image and Imagination Source: Image and Imagination
“Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.” BookYoungDangerousLessonsAdultsYoung Adult Author:Ned Vizzini
“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.” HardReasonRealitySeemsMemoriesMankindRocksDangerousCreationLessonsDrivenAwfulFallenCollectivesHard LessonsCollective Memory Author:Hilaire Belloc
“One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.” PeopleDangerousLessonsFinancialExtremesDependence Author:Juan Enriquez
“I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.” ThinkingDangerousLessons Author:Brent Scowcroft