"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Technology Quotes #Order Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.”
“The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.”
“The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
“A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.”
“Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.”
“Eternal life is the most important thing in all the world for which you and I should work and hope someday to attain. . . . the person who attains eternal life is exceedingly rich. Seek not for riches but for wisdom. . . . . . . he that hath eternal life is rich. Eternal life is the greatest of all of the gifts of God.”
“The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.”

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