Age Quote by Harold Innis Download Open image “The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.” — Harold Innis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Atom bomb Atoms Bombs Burned Heretic Middle Middle ages Modern Modern age
“Almost two hundred years ago, during the War of 2062, back when the world was inhabited exclusively by humans, a war between North American Countries and Middle Eastern countries arose. It began over religious reasons, though I have no idea what the word religious even means just that whatever was inherent in their opposing beliefs led to the Middle Eastern… — Jennifer Martucci Copy Share
“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people, have been misled by our own sages through the last four thousand years. We are now over-civilized in a world of barbaric peoples. WE were taught centuries ago that war is not the pastime of a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“Few in our government and in the public sector have openly confronted the threat offered by the use of but one nuclear weapon, in the hands of a determined enemy, who calibrates it to trigger a massive EMP burst. Such an event would destroy our complex, delicate high-tech society in an instant and throw all of our lives back to… — William R. Forstchen Copy Share
The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
