Quote by Cyril Connolly
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

Other quotes by Cyril Connolly

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. – Cyril Connolly

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Laziness
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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Body, the
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Other Quotes from
Terrorism
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. – Jean Baudrillard

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Terrorism

Over time its going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. Youre either with us or against us in the fight against terror. – George W. Bush

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Terrorism

Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. – Anon.

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Terrorism

If we like them, theyre freedom fighters . . . If we dont like them, theyre terrorists. In the unlikely case we cant make up our minds, theyre temporarily only guerrillas. – Carl Sagan

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Terrorism

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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work

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

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[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation