#ily

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#daily #dull #enjoyments #habit #into

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#i #institution #know #only #rock

If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption-search #dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #family-relationships #mothers

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family. ↗

— David Abram

#nature #trees #family

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. ↗

— Paracelsus

#daily #daily bread #grants #labour #must

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#comes #else #everything #family #far

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#era #holiness #necessarily #our #passes