Norman Angell Quotes

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

The world is a pile of grunge.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Rome is the most dreadful cesspit … the great sewer of Tarquin itself would have been incapable of dealing with such a mass of filth.

In most slums and cities in developing states, population growth is outpacing the ability of the growth in pollution and sewage. Such unmet expectations in over-crowded cities can be the catalyst for civil conflict.

War is never a good environment in which to run.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.