Decivilizing Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares? — Steve Guttenberg

It is, in truth, our responsibility to understand our needs and to adjust our perceptions,thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and environments to reflect these needs. We can't force others to change, but we can change ourselves. — Aletheia Luna

To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry.
If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think. — Frantz Fanon

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. — Ted Rall

I felt like poisoning a monk. — Umberto Eco

Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load. — Sara Dormon

just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. — Jenny Han

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love. — Cass McCombs

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