#liza

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#balance #certain #civilization #civilized #civilized man

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#hostile #i #necessarily #other #think

Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#civilization #making #persons

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#barbarism #be prepared #civilization #defend #force

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#become #city #civilization #immigrant #menace

The Truth about America’s Silicon Valley- Angels in the Silicon Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.- John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant ↗

— Richard Theodor Kusiolek

#globalization #legal-system #technological-evolution #change

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#margaret-thatcher #monarchy #queen-elizabeth-ii #the-queen #leadership

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#cooperate #countries #created #environment #hope

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#civilization #lamb #skin #which