"Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival."

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Source : barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

Barry Commoner

#Military Quotes #Technology Quotes #Survival Quotes

“My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.”
“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”
“The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.”
“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
“The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?”
“The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.”
“But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.”

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