#liza

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#culture #dead #give #moment #period

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #civilization #confidence #engagement #every

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#become #been #getting #had #houston

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#civilization #entirely #last #our #ourselves

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#anglo-saxon #civilization #him #his #individual

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#been #civilization #cookery #progress

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#agricultural #apart #attention #civilization #condition