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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 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

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

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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

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

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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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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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