Franz Kafka
Writer
"If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted."
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Tower Of Babel
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Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other."
Alexander Smith
Poet
"A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols."
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