"The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need."

-- Barry Commoner

#Technology Quotes #Needs Quotes #Gaps Quotes

“Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.”
“Call me Sunshine, ***** spread like the rainbow.”
“Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.”
“However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.”
“how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.”
“He who wrongs one threatens many.”
“All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!”

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