#than

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#always #any #around #circle #directly

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#could #had #happened #hardly #human

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#even #exists #great #know #more

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#communication #example #for example #haunt #me

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#discretion #intimate #justice #life #nothing

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#number #side #smallest #than #their

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#before #business #courses #ethics #ever

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact