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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
bourgeoisie communist-manifesto instruments
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Karl Marx
bourgeoisie needs communist-manifesto
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
bourgeoisie common communist-manifesto
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
bourgeoisie good-things significant
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. Mao Zedong
bourgeoisie endeavor workers
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited. Vladimir Lenin
bourgeoisie materialism ends
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. Talcott Parsons
noblemen lists holy
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty? Brandon Sanderson
noblemen rewards cleanliness
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. Francis Bacon
noblemen wealth pedigree
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. Josh Billings