Wallace Kaufman Quotes

"Humankind has mastered most of the powers of the natural world. This new pandemic makes clear that bio-engineered weapons can create more economic and social havoc and death than any other weapon, and that created viruses can be spread faster and farther with less effort than other weapons. Our powers are now god-like for both creation and destruction. We have met the Titans and they are us."

One of the marvels of human psychology is that the people who are thoroughly pessimistic about humankind want to solve our problems by trusting their solution to a very small number of small minds.

Life is a deadly game presently being played with 7 billion people on one side and death on the other.

Civilization is a creative writing course. Some people will kill to defend their stories.

There is no such thing as a hydroponic human. Every human who eats, kills. Some prefer to kill only peace loving plants while others get their plant nourishment second hand by killing animals. In fact, few meat eaters kill what they eat. Meat eater is just a fancy word for scavenger.

Movie theaters change shows every three or four days or a week. Poole Slough, like many places, where tall buildings don't sit between you and the view of nature, changes shows sometimes in minutes, but at least two or three times a day. Although I have yet to grasp the plot of this endless series, it does not have commercials and it does not stop for summer break. I appreciate the privilege of being usually an audience of one.