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Vili Quotes

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency Picture Quote #1

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point Picture Quote #1

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society Picture Quote #1

True respect means taking other people’s beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong Picture Quote #1

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child Picture Quote #1

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print Picture Quote #1

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Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people Picture Quote #1

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at Picture Quote #1

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name Picture Quote #1

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation Picture Quote #1

We talk about civilization as though it’s a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it’s a process that’s constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization Picture Quote #1

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization Picture Quote #1

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I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake Picture Quote #1

On this waterlogged landscape... are scattered palaces and hovels... It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage Picture Quote #1

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it Picture Quote #1

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants Picture Quote #1

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people’s feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked Picture Quote #1

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed Picture Quote #1

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Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization Picture Quote #1

It’s so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct Picture Quote #1

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below Picture Quote #1

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight Picture Quote #1

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting Picture Quote #1

Civility is not something that automatically happens. Civil societies come about because people want them to Picture Quote #1

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The character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood Picture Quote #1

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned Picture Quote #1

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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency (Vili Quotes) Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point (Vili Quotes) It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society (Vili Quotes) True respect means taking other people’s beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong (Vili Quotes) The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child (Vili Quotes) Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print (Vili Quotes) Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people (Vili Quotes) Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at (Vili Quotes) There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name (Vili Quotes) Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation (Vili Quotes) We talk about civilization as though it’s a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it’s a process that’s constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization (Vili Quotes) Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization (Vili Quotes) I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake (Vili Quotes) On this waterlogged landscape... are scattered palaces and hovels... It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage (Vili Quotes) There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it (Vili Quotes) Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants (Vili Quotes) To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people’s feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked (Vili Quotes) As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed (Vili Quotes) Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization (Vili Quotes) It’s so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct (Vili Quotes) Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below (Vili Quotes) Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight (Vili Quotes) There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting (Vili Quotes) Civility is not something that automatically happens. Civil societies come about because people want them to (Vili Quotes) The character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood (Vili Quotes) I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned (Vili Quotes)

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