Thanks to
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg I came across these great quotations. Perhaps they struck me because some of my thoughts after listening to a
podcast about George Orwell and beginning von Hayek's
Road to Serfdom.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)