#liza

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#elizabeth #grab #into #little #trap

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #evidence #eye #good #i

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#broadly #embedded #ensure #global #global market

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#also #civilization #cooperation #implicit #make

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#die #murder #suicide

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#civilization #classical #common #discussion #freedom

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good. ↗

— Bill Walton

#bob #civilization #dylan #good #history