Rachel Cohn Quotes

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

The reward for using the atom's power towards man's welfare is great and sure. The punishment for its misuse would seem to be death and the destruction of the civilization that has been growing for a thousand years.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Man has created death.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

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

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.