#respectability

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

Respectable people... What bastards! ↗

— Émile Zola

#respect

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ↗

— Sam Keen

#finds #laziness #respectability #summer

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#begin #close #head #respectability #shades

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#coexist #deep #deep desire #desire #economics

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#keep #mean #men #respectability #some