Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not c...ommit suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Given the existence ... of a personal God ... who ... loves us dearly ... it is established beyond all doubt ... that man ... wast...es and pines ... for reasons unknown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre ...wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to det...ect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the res...t. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadi...um; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »