Jose Moa

“1.Nuclear weapons are immensely destructive and any use would be a catastrophe.
2.If the peoples of the world fully undrestood the inherent dangers of nuclear weapons and the consecuences of their use,they would reject them and not permit their continued posession by or acquisition of by goverments even for an alleged self- defense.”
― Canberra Comission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 1996

“Napoleon:How s it that,although you say so much about the Universe,you say nothing about its Creator
Laplace:No sire,I had no need of that hypotesis
Lagrange:Ah,but it is such a good hypotesis:it explains so many things!
Laplace:Indeed,Sire,Monsieur Lagrange has,with his usual sagacity,put his finger on he precise difficulty with the hypotesis:it explains everything,but predicts nothing”
― Laplace,Lagrange,Napoleon Bonaparte

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Del salón en el angulo oscuro
de su dueño tal vez olvidada
silenciosa y cubierta de polvo
veiase el arpa

¡Cuanta nota dormia en sus cuerdas
como el pájaro duerme en las ramas
esperando la mano de nieve
que sabe arrancarlas

-¡Ay!-pensé-.¡Cuantas veces el genio
asi duerme en el fondo del alma,,como Lazaro,espera
que le diga:"¡Levantate y anda!"
y una voz”
― Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer