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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 stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
foolish gossip silence
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men. Bible Bible
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. Nicolas Chamfort
foolish eloquence affected
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. Ben Jonson
foolish speak speaking
So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.
foolish
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. Aleister Crowley
foolish god ignorance liberty servants silence using
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
foolish fools-and-foolishness jeopardize plans year
I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play. Gustavo Kuerten
foolishly money spending
I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.