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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not real — Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. — Harvey Milk
Civilization is vastly overrated. — Patricia Briggs, On the Prowl
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell — Philip Henry Sheridan
When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they wi — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the w — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL fo — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our moc — Tiffany Madison
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the im — Theodor W. Adorno
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands o — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentio — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance t — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an ou — Francis Bacon
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgi — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When i — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio