#latter

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#advance #because #between #call #cannot

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. ↗

— William Shenstone

#his #hope #hut #man #most

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#back #belief #case #faith #individual

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #educated #educated people #facts #ignorant

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #celestial #divine #former #forth

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#because #better #go #had #i

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery