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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
prosperity ownership private-property
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
prosperity mankind humankind
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. Bertrand Russell
prosperity personal-life
When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life. Brendon Burchard
prosperity not-interested left
The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality Dennis Prager
prosperity seems
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. Aristotle
prosperity virtue
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
prosperity fairs fortunate
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. Aeschylus
prosperity increase
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success. Calvin Coolidge
prosperity best-picture corners
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity. Ansel Adams
nations
We are a European nation - must stay one. David Miliband
nations
Happy is the nation without a history. Cesare Beccaria
nations
I'm a one-nation Tory. Boris Johnson
nations
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. Abdul Kalam
nations
Politics is history in the making. Adolf Hitler
nations
There is no such thing as the United Nations. John Bolton
nations
There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario. Phil Fontaine
nations
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
nations people
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. Jean-Jacques Rousseau