"A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts."

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Malcolm Muggeridge

#Society Quotes #Individual Quotes #Decrepit Quotes

“Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.”
“Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.”
“It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.”
“... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of non-Whites Arabs. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America Israel we love.”
“Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?”
“I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.”
“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2015). “The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms”, p.204, University of Chicago Press
“Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.”

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