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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization mind needs
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. David Wallace
civilization giving innovation
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so! David Brin
civilization president faults
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. David Brooks
civilization enemy liberty
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. August Bebel
civilization people enemy
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.
people everyday passing-away
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. Charles Dickens
people literature may
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
enemy thee harm
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
enemy causes violent
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
enemy may
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
enemy liberty age
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty. David Hume
enemy religion liberty
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
enemy battle done
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury. David Brainerd
enemy destroying hopefully
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other. Audre Lorde
enemy friends-and-enemies poetry-is
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. Arnold Bennett