"The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'."

-- James C. Scott

#Order Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Facts Quotes

“You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want.”
“A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.”
“I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.”
“I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.”
“Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.”
“Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.”
“A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.”

Source : John Taylor (2018). “An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand
“We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.”

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