128.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 8
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"Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions;I o." -Aleister Crowley-
"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.".-Basil S. Walsh-
"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.".-Denis Waitley-
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.".-Flower A. Newhouse
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"From each, according to his ability;to each, according to his need.".-Karl Marx-
"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.".-Michael Korda-
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.".-Winston Churchill-
"The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.".-Ambrose Bierce-
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"There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.".-Barbara Howar-
"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.".-Cesare Pavese-
"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.".-Dogen-
"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.".-Henry Bolingbroke-
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body;the two are ever united.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure;never static;is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction;we destroy in order to make it n".-Norman O. Brown-
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"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.".-Victor Hugo-
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.".-Alfred North Whitehead-
"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.".-Bourke Cockran-
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.".-David Hare-
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.".-Henry Allen-
"Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The world is a dangerous place to live;not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.".-Albert Einstein-
"In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
"Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
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"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.".-Anatole France-
"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them".-Bernard Mandeville-
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