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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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
white tears haunting
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. Charles Dickens
white self black
Black implies white self implies other Alan Watts
white mind wish
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males. Alan Bennett
white democrat my-time
There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time. Al Sharpton
white house white-house
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House. Al Sharpton
white
What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers? Al Sharpton
white people black
And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay. Chico Hamilton
white soup wonderful
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. Chiang Kai-shek
white people getting-high
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high. Dave Chappelle
guilt compromise sin
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin? Charles Spurgeon
guilt may mindfulness
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Alan Watts
guilty clinton american-history
It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty? Chris Christie
guilty innocent ability
This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent. Chris Asplen
guilt helping should
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are. David D. Burns
guilty feels frivolous
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty. Catherine Deneuve
guilty party point technical
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view. Gideon Gono
guilty glory crime
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. William Shakespeare
guilt spy president
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president. Jonah Goldberg