#civil

Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoje fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#coming-of-age #existentialism #laforet #nada #spanish-civil-war

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #bound #civilization #environment #first

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#chosen #civilization #compatible #god #happiness

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#asia #civilized #going #methods #much

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

#believers #civil #evil #god #magistrate

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. ↗

— Malcolm Lowry

#couple #days #die #god #good

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#civil #consult #god #ministers #nature

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#acquaintances #again #another #begin #civil

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#culture #war #art