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“Uther était jeune enfant encore, lorsque la nouvelle du sac de Rome par les Goths parvint en Bretagne. Pour certains, et même pour la plupart de ses compatriotes, la Ville n’était qu’un maître lointain, surtout pourvoyeur d’impôts et de corvées. Pour d’autres par contre, Rome représentait la présence vivante d’une grandeur touchant au cosmique, une source jaillissante de civilisation qui soudain s’était tarie.Dans les vertes campagnes de l’île, bien entendu, cela ne changea rien de prime abord à la vie quotidienne, ou si peu. Certes, les quelques légions s’en étaient allées sur le continent défendre ce qu’il restait de la cité impériale, mais l’alternance des saisons ne s’en trouvait pas perturbée pour autant, pas plus que celle des moissons. Dans les villes, les vieilles familles tentaient de grappiller le pouvoir abandonné par ceux qui gouvernaient jusqu’alors au nom des distants et faibles césars, et se livraient à d’insidieuses luttes d’influence.”

“Utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact, genteel and used-up infidels, gabblers of many little dog’s-eared creeds, the poor you will have always with you. Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.”

“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.”

“Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.”

“Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.”

“Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters.”

“Utolsó leheletemmel is köszönöm a sorsnak, hogy ember voltam, és az értelem szikrája világított az én homályos lelkemben is. Láttam a földet, az eget, az évszakokat. Megismertem a szerelmet, a valóság töredékeit, a vágyakat és a csalódásokat. A földön éltem és lassan felderültem. Egy napon meghalok: s ez is milyen csodálatosan rendjén való és egyszerű! Történhetett velem más, jobb, nagyszerűbb? Nem történhetett. Megéltem a legtöbbet és a legnagyszerűbbet, az emberi sorsot. Más és jobb nem is történhetett velem.”