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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
taxation sugar commodity
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. Adam Smith
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
taxation wealth taxes
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax. Dick Spring
taxation way gains
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. Calvin Trillin
taxation finance budgets
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. James Madison
taxation institutions foursquare
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. Frank Chodorov
taxation should robbery
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
taxation revolution citizens
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation. Lyndon B. Johnson
taxation may pay
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
taxes-funny pay congress
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay Milton Friedman
taxes-funny income-tax tax-day
There's no such thing as a good tax. Winston Churchill