#liza

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#balance #cone #economic #need #officers

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #crust #from time to time #over #revolution

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#burgeoning #civilization #direction #early #flow

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

#found #happiness #indictments #intelligence #person

Anyway, I don’t want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.’ It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#realization #truth #love

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #civilizations #contact #dust #intimate