Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, People, Environmental

• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

• Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Long, Enough

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1980). “A Krutch omnibus: forty years of social and literary criticism”, William Morrow &Company

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