Civilising Project Quotes & Sayings

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself. — James Hilton

If you get married, you become vulnerable. — Frank Stallone

The Pig Chef was - if you thought about it - one of the more sinister icons of American roadside art. Danny's personal totem. What kind of pig is a butcher? What kind of pig cooks barbeque? A traitor pig, a killer pig, a doomed preterite pig destined for eternal damnation. Danny's Pig Chefs showed the full weight of this knowledge in their mocking eyes and snaggled snouts. — Rudy Rucker

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long. — Jang In-hwan

We don't talk; it's family night, not miracle night. — Pam Bachorz

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day. — Samuel Gompers

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired by the religious hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the naturalistic hypothesis, then religious faith is a pure superfluity, better pruned away, and controversy about its legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression which specifically determines our reactions, and makes them in a large part unlike what they might be on a purely naturalistic scheme of belief. — William James

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. — G.K. Chesterton

Life is responding to you. Life is communicating with you. There are no accidents or coincidences: every single thing has a frequency, and when anything comes into your life, it means it's on the same frequency as you are. — Rhonda Byrne

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress. — Damon Galgut