
And further, one should think: "This leads to happiness in this world and the next."
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)
Letter to Lucy Martin Donnely, July 6, 1902
1900s
And further, one should think: "This leads to happiness in this world and the next."
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)
Variant: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Source: Mein Kampf
Reported in his Tennessean's obituary; quoted in "John Seigenthaler dies at 86" http://www.poynter.org/2014/john-seigenthaler-dies-at-86/258597/ by Andrew Beaujon, poynter.org (11 July 2014)
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003
“Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics.”
"Six ways the internet will save civilisation" in WIRED magazine (9 November 2010) http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/12/start/apocalypse-no
Context: Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics. Usually this results from: natural disasters, resource depletion, economic meltdown, disease, poor information flow and corruption. But we’re luckier than our predecessors because we command a technology that no one else possessed: a rapid communication network that finds its highest expression in the internet. I propose that there are six ways in which the net has vastly reduced the threat of societal collapse.
Elnith in Ch. 46 : nell latimer’s journal, p. 498
The Visitor (2002)