"Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents"

-- Albert Camus

#Sacrifice Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
“Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'”
“I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.78, Macmillan
“I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.”
“It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press
“I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.”
“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”

Source : "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.
“All evil begins with this belief: that anotherâ€™s existence is less precious than mine.”

Source : Tony Hendra (2007). “The Messiah of Morris Avenue: A Novel”, p.91, Macmillan

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