"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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George Orwell

#Independent Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Evil Quotes

“The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”
“What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.”
“The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.”
“The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books
“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

Source : Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris
“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
“The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.”
“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”

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