Today Quotes
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.Samuel Goldwyn
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.Henri Bergson
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.Ronald Knox
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)