"The Human Species could have been great..." - Quote by George Carlin
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.
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“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
“Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.”
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“How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?”
“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”
“In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.”