Quotes of: Germs Keyword

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of free...

Ernestine Rose

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts...

Jane Eyre

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers fr...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though:...

Hocus Pocus

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects th...

The Social Life Of Animals

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Sophie Swetchine

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

Henry Rollins

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

Jim Lehrer

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Bless Me, Ultima

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

David Hilbert

Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package" - Debora Geary

Witches Under Way

Ed: Germ girl! Faye-Faye stay 'way-'way!

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie