June 30, 2007

A list of quotes from two sources

A verbal case of pin the tail on one of two donkeys. Check it out here:
Did Al Gore say it? Or was it the Unabomber?
Each quote below is either from Al Gore's Book Earth in the Balance or from the Unabomber's Manifesto.
Here are two samples -- one is Gore, one is Kaczynski:
"Again, we must not forget the lessons of World War II. The Resistance slowed the advance of fascism and scored important victories, but fascism continued its relentless march to domination until the rest of the world finally awoke and made the difference and made the defeat of fascism its central organizing principle from 1941 through 1945."

"It is not necessary for the sake of nature to set up some chimerical utopia or any new kind of social order. Nature takes care of itself: It was a spontaneous creation that existed long before any human society, and for countless centuries, many different kinds of human societies coexisted with nature without doing it an excessive amount of damage. Only with the Industrial Revolution did the effect of human society on nature become really devastating."
So close it's an interesting insight -- 12 quotes and I defy anyone to get them all identified correctly on the first go... Posted by DaveH at June 30, 2007 10:50 PM