Thomas Beek

“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. “There is evil for you. “We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. “I give you a holy word: DISARM.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“Nārada here congratulates the Lord’s devotees for their humility, which more than anything else helps them achieve all success in loving devotional service.”
― Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta: Volume 3

“to be effective teachers need to strive for congruence of belief and personal habit.”
― Bhūrijana Dāsa, The Art of Teaching: A Guide for Training Our Children in Krsna Consciousness

“This implies, of course, the development of a really compact and light-weight method of storing or producing electricity, at least an order of magnitude better than our present clumsy batteries. Such an invention has been overdue for about fifty years;”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future