Vag Quotes
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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man’s good is found in another’s evil (Vag Quotes)
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar (Vag Quotes)
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay (Vag Quotes)
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests (Vag Quotes)
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times? (Vag Quotes)
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves (Vag Quotes)
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought (Vag Quotes)
These are not vague inferences... but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs (Vag Quotes)
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless (Vag Quotes)
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings (Vag Quotes)
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast (Vag Quotes)
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom (Vag Quotes)
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery... To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace (Vag Quotes)
God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth (Vag Quotes)
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting’s so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced (Vag Quotes)
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself (Vag Quotes)
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love (Vag Quotes)
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management’s reluctance to reward the shareholders (Vag Quotes)
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion (Vag Quotes)
Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? (Vag Quotes)
We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain (Vag Quotes)
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself (Vag Quotes)
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces (Vag Quotes)
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material (Vag Quotes)
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted (Vag Quotes)
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate (Vag Quotes)
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary (Vag Quotes)
On this waterlogged landscape... are scattered palaces and hovels... It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage (Vag Quotes)
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life’s journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral (Vag Quotes)
Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can’t always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies (Vag Quotes)