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- Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…
- Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
- What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
- Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of…
- Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
- Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to…
- It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation.…
- We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and…
- All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God…
- So I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by…
- The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of…
- Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
- Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray