Great Throughts Treasury
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P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri
Sri Lankan Buddhist Scholar, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Universityh of Peradeniya, President of the Buddhist Publication Society
"All the progress humanity has made appears to be endangered by the very technological skills that humans have achieved. We live in an age in which the evils that humans inflict on others have reached unparalleled extremes of barbarism."
"Fanaticism and intolerance often result from the delusion that, "this alone is the truth and everything else is false," causing people to commit atrocities in the name of "truth.""