What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. |
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. |
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. |
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. |
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. |
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did. |
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. |
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. |