“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”– Arthur C. Clarke Related Quotes “Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life.”– Kim Novak “We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.”– Franklin P. Adams “The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.”– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel