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war thinking giving
Alan Watts We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot
war men people
Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
war men world
Alan Moore They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
war responsibility power
Alan Moore Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan The Iraq War is largely about oil.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
war world retrospect
Alan Greenspan The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
war believe iraq
Alan Colmes I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
civilization interesting salt
Antonio Tabucchi The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
civilization age stones
Jacques Barzun If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
civilization games asteroids
Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
civilization views islam
Bertrand Russell To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
civilization people way
Agnes Repplier People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
civilization tea england
Agnes Repplier English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
Alan Rudolph You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
civilization roots leisure
Charles de Gaulle At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
civilization chinese heritage
Chen Ning Yang I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
class two people
Charles Dickens Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
Charles Dickens The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Charles Dickens Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
Charles Dickens The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
Chris Colfer When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out
class enough situation
David Weber She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
class russia mafia
David Remnick There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
class community interest
David Ricardo The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
class judging wages
David Ricardo It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.