Philip Shabecoff quotes

Philip Shabecoff quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.”
-- Philip Shabecoff

#Nature Quotes #Bombs Quotes #May Quotes

“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.”
“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
“I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.”
“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.”

Source : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.
“The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.”
“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
“The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”
“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”

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