The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. – T.H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics,” 1893

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore