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“We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.”

Voice Tongue Frequency Babel

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?”

“How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.”

Inspiration Faith Speak Heaven Christian Inspirational Latin Towers Undone Dutch Speak English Babel Tower Of Babel

Author:Peter Kreeft

“A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.”

World Should Hands Lying Turns Born Secret Warm Invisible Phrases Twists Good And Bad Levers Babel

Author:Isaac Babel

“We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.”

World Dream Age Earth Past Lying Dying Birth Built Buried New World Mirth Babel

Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr”

Knows Men Humans Wells May Mean Has Beens Today Language Heaven Technology Promise Computer Highest Separation Scales Instant Division Towers Extensions Babel Tower Of Babel

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.”

History Violence Speakers Towers Pits British History Babel Tower Of Babel

Author:Alexander Smith

“As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.”

Philosophy Aim Daring Shelter Towers Pyramids Babel Apex Tower Of Babel Apex Predators

Author:Adam Sedgwick

“I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.”

“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.”

World Book Feelings Religion Belief Sacred Etc Tyrants Trusted Rainbow Towers Testament World History Old Testament Barbarians Babel Revengeful Tower Of Babel

Author:Charles Darwin

“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Needs Different Race Stage Building Evolution Diversity Difficulty Population Protection Tongue Restraint Babel

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics