Stanislaw Lem Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Feelings, Progress, Purpose

• I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Crazy, Ideas, Mankind

• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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