#maintained

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#blot #bombs #civilization #few #few people

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#bad #bad stuff #best #better #comic

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #in other words #level #maintained #other

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#anxiety #conviction #disabilities #due #education

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#embrace #enhancement #enlightenment #less #light

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#governed #maintained #manifestly #order #sovereign

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #based #because #been #could

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#always #among #arabs #arms #been