#liz

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#america #black #existence #focus #group

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#get #hell #know #neither #older

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. ↗

— Karen Horney

#normal #normal person #our #perfect #person

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#cannot #clearly #exterior #freedom #inner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #civilization #developments #every #here

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#chewing #chewing gum #civilized #country #gum

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#both #both sides #china #economy #either

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find