#liza

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cocktail #cop #culture #down #guns

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

#chooses #crime #ethical #group #philosophical

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#hand #other #realization #reconciliation #society

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#arguing #been #globalization #gravity #laws

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#build #cannot #every #every step #globalization

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#also #civilization #effectively #european #itself