“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” BelieveLongEndsHomeGovernmentTogetherI BelievePresidentHonestyPolicyCivilizationTruth IsFellowsInstinctNightmareOpennessGlueUnbrokenCandor Author:Gerald R. Ford
“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.” MenWorldMindEndsBodyWould BeEarthSpaceRacePlanetsColdCivilizationHorrorMembersFilledCoreVegetablesEntityCreamStoppingTime And SpaceEldersDoomMonstrousCivilisationClingingMercuryRough TimesBeetlesMigrateBurrowingGreat Race Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
“Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.” MenFeelsMeanHas BeensEndsJoyRealizingMankindCivilizationAuthoritySolutionsUltimateHarmonyFellowsRageArguingUrgesTrafficFellow ManPeace And HarmonyFreeways Author:Criss Jami
“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.” EndsCausesEffectsRevolutionCivilizationScalesBoredomUtopiaStaticUnderestimatedLarge Scale Author:William Ralph Inge
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.” FirstsMeanImportantEndsRealitySeemsModernCivilizationModern Life Book:Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation Source: Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation
“We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsWholeMomentsKindnessSeeingCivilizationBandDrawsAnd LoveAround The WorldContributionActs Of KindnessReservoirsDostoyevskyMoments Of Love Author:Michael Novak