Decivilizing Quotes

#1. There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.

E.B. White

#2. Yes, I know it's easy to make fun of the organised churches, but has it occurred to anyone to wonder why it's so easy?

John Cleese

#3. For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

Margaret Cavendish

#4. In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Erik Erikson

#5. I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart

Ikkyu

#6. Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#7. I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Michael Connelly

#8. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

John Green

#9. I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful- then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up?

Mina Khan

#12. Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

David Weber

#13. If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Cecil Taylor