Babel Quote by Alexander Smith Download Open image “A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.” — Alexander Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Babel British history History Pits Speakers Tower of babel Towers Violence
The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence — Brassai Copy Share Image
“Destruction. Anyone who didn’t know the real meaning of that word now has the opportunity to learn it here. You might have thought that you already knew its real name and how to pronounce it. But during the first major bombardment you experience, you find himself in the semi-darkness of a cellar with a crowd of frantic people, already killed… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors, metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they can eat… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace Copy Share Image
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“In a world where half the Earth drowned, silence is the only peace… and the greatest danger. Fifteen years ago, the oceans rose and… — Kamish Kamish Copy Share Image
“Not everyone has a voice. Many outsiders cannot speak through walls, and, as a consequence, they become silent and invisible. Some give up their… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our modern era embodies both the Tower of Babel and Pentecost simultaneously. Like Babel, globalization and technological advancement have created linguistic and cultural fragmentation…… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
“An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect… — Colin E. Gunton Copy Share Image
The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel:… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him.… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
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