"In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner."

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Source : Eric Ambler (2011). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Eric Ambler

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Political Quotes

“If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.”
“I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.”
“I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.â€ â€œMaybe not,â€ he said. â€œBut she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.â€ â€œOr kill him,â€ I said. â€œThat too. What is life without risk?â€ â€œLong?â€ Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made meâ€”and Zayvion, much to my surpriseâ€”smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy youâ€™d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.”

Source : "Magic on the Storm". Book by Devon Monk, 2010.
“I've triumphed over addiction.”
“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”
“Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.”
“August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.”

Source : "The day the world went mad" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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