"Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine."

--

Source : Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”

Leonid Andreyev

#Wise Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Men Quotes

“I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.”
“I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.”
“I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.”
“When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.”
“Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.”
“The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.”

Source : Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.232, Springer
“Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.”
“The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.”

You may also like: