“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.” MenGivingHumansLooksStatesActionIndividualGrowsPartyHappenedConditionsEasierCivilizationConsequenceWittyDinnerGreekPleasantDoomedEntitlementGood FoodDinner PartyAthensHuman Actions Author:Edith Hamilton
“Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.” ShouldPartyCivilizationRepublicanUnderstoodAspect Author:Jacob K. Javits
“A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.” MenPartyPrinciplesCenturyCivilizationFanaticismMilitant Author:Adlai Stevenson I