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#Quotes. Mostly of a political or anti-political nature. #Quote
"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest." ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter #quote
December 12, 2024 at 6:33 PM
"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest." ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter #quote
"The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual." - Sigmund Freud #quote
December 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
"The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual." - Sigmund Freud #quote
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization." ~ Ambrose Bierce #quote
December 12, 2024 at 1:50 PM
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization." ~ Ambrose Bierce #quote
December 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM
"Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold." ~ D. H. Lawrence #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:24 AM
"Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold." ~ D. H. Lawrence #quote
"Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite." ~ Richard Bach #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:22 AM
"Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite." ~ Richard Bach #quote
"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." ~ Mark Twain #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:16 AM
"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." ~ Mark Twain #quote
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them." - Henry David Thoreau #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them." - Henry David Thoreau #quote
"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power." ~ Harriet Martineau #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:10 AM
"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power." ~ Harriet Martineau #quote
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:06 AM
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #quote
"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." - Arnold J. Toynbee #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." - Arnold J. Toynbee #quote
"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." - Charles Lindbergh #quote
December 10, 2024 at 11:04 AM
"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." - Charles Lindbergh #quote