#liza

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #infidelity

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#any #case #dangerous #generalizations #i

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#before #civilization #create #cyberspace #fair

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#art #creative #play #realization #sake

You can't leave civilization behind entirely. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#civilization #entirely #leave #you

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#civilization #our #sex #sex appeal

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#civilization #constantly #country #economic #educational

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly