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Babel Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it..."
Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dante Alighieri quote: "There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and..."
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair Dante Alighieri
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub. William Gibson
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. Charles Baudelaire
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no... Benjamin Franklin
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man. George Steiner
Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! Ray Bradbury
H. G. Wells quote: "Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was..."
Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel. A H. G. Wells
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. Douglas Adams
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist. If I had to check out where I was in other centuries, I was his old lady. If I wasn't the guy, I was his chick. He knew that there was more and God got jealous. Even gods get uptight. Women make gods uptight. Everyone thinks of God as a man -- you can't help it -- Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. But a man comes once. A woman never stops coming. Patti Smith
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quote: "What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody..."
What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. Adam Sedgwick
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. Arthur Keith
Franz Kafka quote: "If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without..."
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. Franz Kafka

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