"If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above."

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Source : "Wealth Against Commonwealth".

Henry Demarest Lloyd

#Civilization Quotes #Barbarians Quotes

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”
“I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.”
“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
“I definitely admire Blair Walsh the most. He's actually a pretty close friend of mine. Just how he went through his senior year at Georgia, I kind of went through the same struggles. He's been able to coach me through everything and help me. Everyone is there for a reason, and they're all great. On and off the field, there's a reason they're there.”
“We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.”
“We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.”
“Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.”

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