Warning Quotes

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

H. G. Wells

"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."

Carl Sagan

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"The sleep of reason produces monsters."

Francisco Goya

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

Albert Einstein

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."

"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Francis Bacon

"Make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."

Henry Fielding

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.”

Cree Proverb

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

Edward Abbey

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.”

Stephen Hawking

“Beware the ides of March.”

“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”

The Bible (Isaiah 1:30)

“Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap.”

The Bible (Micah 6:15)

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

Louis D. Brandeis

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

Edmund Burke

"History is a vast early warning system."

Norman Cousins

"History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done."

Sydney J. Harris

“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.”

Francis Quarles

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

John Dryden