#luxury

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#giving #influence #life #luxury #made

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#avoid #away #believe #better #force

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#cars #drive #flashy #hotels #luxury

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#afford #all day #come #day #does

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#been #clothes #come #creative #creativity

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. ↗

— Golda Meir

#himself #jew #luxury #never #pessimism

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#back #community #face #identity #into

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ↗

— Ted Morgan

#afford #army #hires #howard #howard hughes

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #every #every time #experience #great

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#every #everything #luxury #must #paid