"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

-- Oriana Fallaci

#Giving Up Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Culture Quotes

“There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.”
“What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.”

Source : Les Giblin (1956). “How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People”, p.15, Les Giblin Books
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.”
“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”
“We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.”
“I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?”
“Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.”

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