Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons. The Squatter and the Don
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Quote:- Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more effective form in their technology, reintroducing coercions of a military character no less strict in the organization of a factory than in that of the new drilled, uniformed, and regimented army. During the transitional stages of the last two centuries, the ultimate tendency of this system might b e in doubt, for in many areas there were strong democratic reactions; but with the knitting together of a scientific ideology, itself liberated from theological restrictions or humanistic purposes, authoritarian technics found an instrument at hand that h as now given it absolute command of physical energies of cosmic dimensions. The inventors of nuclear bombs, space rockets, and computers are the pyramid builders of our own age: psychologically inflated by a similar myth of unqualified power, boasting through their science of their increasing omnipotence, if not omniscience, moved by obsessions and compulsions no less irrational than those of earlier absolute systems: particularly the notion that the system itself must be expanded, at whatever eventual co st to life.Through mechanization, automation, cybernetic direction, this authoritarian technics has at last successfully overcome its most serious weakness: its original dependence upon resistant, sometimes actively disobedient servomechanisms, still human enough to harbor purposes that do not always coincide with those of the system.Like the earliest form of authoritarian technics, this new technology is marvellously dynamic and productive: its power in every form tends to increase without limits, in quantities that defy assimilation and defeat control, whether we are thinking of the output of scientific knowledge or of industrial assembly lines. To maximize energy, speed, or automation, without reference to the complex conditions that sustain organic life, have become ends in themselves. As with the earliest forms of authoritarian technics, the weight of effort, if one is to judge by national budgets, is toward absolute instruments of destruction, designed for absolutely irrational purposes whose chief by-product would be the mutilation or extermination of the human race. Even Ashurbanipal and Genghis Khan performed their gory operations under normal human limits.The center of authority in this new system is no longer a visible personality, an all-powerful king: even in totalitarian dictatorships the center now lies in the system itself, invisible but omnipresent: all its human components, even the technical and managerial elite, even the sacred priesthood of science, who alone have access to the secret knowledge by means of which total control is now swiftly being effected, are themselves trapped by the very perfection of the organization they have invented. Like the Pharoahs of the Pyramid Age, these servants of the system identify its goods with their own kind of well-being: as with the divine king, their praise of the system is an act of self-worship; and again like the king, they are in the grip of an irrational compulsion to extend their means of control and expand the scope of their authority. In this new systems-centered collective, this Pentagon of power, there is no visible presence who issues commands: unlike job's God, the new deities cannot be confronted, still less defied. Under the pretext of saving labor, the ultimate end of this technics is to displace life, or rather, to transfer the attributes of life to the machine and the mechanical collective, allowing only so much of the organism to remain as may be controlled and manipulated.
Author:- Lewis Mumford
Category:- science
Quote:- Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"Let us go and make our visit.We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown.
The Fault in Our Stars
Author:- T.S. Eliot
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Let us love out loud every chance we get; believe in everything we feel; and have faith in where we are.
Author:- Bella Bloom
Category:- Love
Quote:- Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.
City of Girls
Author:- Elizabeth Gilbert
Category:- hope
Quote:- Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and at the same time pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day. ("A Thousand times touched." )
Author:- Erik Pevernagie
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Let us strive together to part with time more reluctantly, to watch the pinions of the fleeting moment until they are dim in the distance, and the new-coming moment claims our attention.
Emily Dickinson: Letters
Author:- Emily Dickinson
Category:- time
Quote:- Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .
The Works Of Second President Of The United States
Author:- John Adams
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us the knowledge of first principles, which arise from nothingness, and the smallness of our being hides infinity from our sight.
Pensées
Author:- Blaise Pascal
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
The Selfish Gene
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- science
Quote:- Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
Author:- Descartes René 1596-1650
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Let your competitors do cheap and efficient marketing while yours entertains, delights, inspires, and wows.
The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out from the Crowd
Author:- Allan Dib
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.
Author:- Michael Bassey Johnson
Category:- inspiration,time
Quote:- Let your heart tell Allah that you love Him and let your actions tell others that you love Allah.
Author:- Muslim Smiles
Category:- Life
Quote:- Let your hope be stronger than your fear.Let your hope be so strong that it lifts you and opens you up to the spaciousness in your being.
Rest Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be
Author:- Hania Khuri-Trapper
Category:- hope
Quote:- Let your knowledge be your adviser and not your arrogance.
Wealth of Words
Author:- Amit Kalantri
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Let Your knowledge go beyond your situation
Author:- Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala
Category:- knowledge