“The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.” WarStatesMilitaryConsequenceDirectInternalsCivilizedDecayAssaultFoeExhaustionDownfall Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.” PeopleWritingWellsBookThreeIndividualNationsSocialLevelsConditionsActivityDegreesCreatingConsequenceAbsenceWell BeingUselessDramaticProportionIsolationInternalsSocial ChangeWriting A BookEpidemicsMania Author:Milan Kundera
“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.” WorldGivingHumansWellsMayLittlesHas BeensMadeStillsDifferentWarAgeScienceNumbersPayRaceGreaterProgressFieldsConsequenceHorseGive MeInfiniteInventionAwfulHuman RaceAgencyBombsInternalsMarchEnginesElectricityMy ThoughtsConvenienceSteamPredecessorsAtomic BombCombustionSteam EnginesEntrusting Book:If I lived my life again Source: If I lived my life again