The End of Everything Quotes

“...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom or morality, much less radical improvement in innate human nature.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“The Spanish—empowered by their steel swords, crossbows, cannon, and harquebuses—and their native allies may have killed twice as many of the Mexica (as the Aztecs were generally known to themselves and other tribes) in a single day of their final siege, as the British army of 1916 lost on the first day of the Somme.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“Trojans, trust not the horse. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bringing gifts. (Equo ne credite, Teucri / quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.)”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated. If the twenty-first-century nations do not tolerate the enslavement of the defeated, they certainly promiscuously warn about incinerating them with nuclear weapons.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at least in comparison to the supposedly greater threats of naturally occurring pandemics, meteoric impacts, man-made climate change, or overpopulation.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“Quid dulcius quam habere quicum omnia audeas sic loqui ut tecum?”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“Unfortunately, the more things change technologically, the more human nature stays the same—a law that applies even to the United States, which often believes it is exempt from the misfortunes of other nations, past and present. This book makes clear, however, that there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom or morality, much less radical improvement in innate human nature.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

“We should remember that the world wars of the last century likely took more human life than all armed conflicts combined since the dawn of Western civilization twenty-five hundred years prior. And they did so with offensive weapons already obsolete, and all too familiar destructive agendas that persist today, unchanged since antiquity.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation