"The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us."

-- Neil Postman

#Spiritual Quotes #Technology Quotes #Brain Quotes

“People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.”
“I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268
“Italy will always have the best food.”
“Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.”
“Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die". There's a place for us, you know the movie song. When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”
“When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.”

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