#prop

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. ↗

— Max Nordau

#before #built #citizens #civilization #crimes

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. ↗

— Novalis

#against #become #disputed #first #must

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. ↗

— Novalis

#home #philosophy #properly #wish

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#drunk #drunkenness #eve #get #holiday

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#dispose #disposes #dumping #government #must

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. ↗

— Barack Obama

#being #civil #civil right #i #i think

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. ↗

— William Odom

#arab world #different #europe #land #notion

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language. ↗

— Will Oldham

#aspects #churches #communicate #human #human soul