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“To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.”

“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.”

Source: Silent Spring

“If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?”

Ifs Men Mankind He Man Rewards Harm Treachery

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!”

Littles Four Fate Mankind Concepts Letters Harm Degrading

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source: Two treatises of government

“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”

Looks Heart Doe States Lying Progress Mankind Increase Individuality Harm Destroying Exploitation Doing Good Greatest Fear Minimizing

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”

World May Done Whole Spirit Vision Mankind Strange Bottom Harm Senses Endless Encounters Crowded Have Courage Cowardly Inexplicable Spirit World

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke