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“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”
Christopher Morley
“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.”
Wendell Phillips“For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
Wendell Phillips“Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.”
Philip James Bailey“Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.”
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”
Thomas Carlyle“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois“The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.”
Colleen Houck“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?”
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