Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. – Alexander McCall Smith
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Were an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. – James Hillman
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. – Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Its unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women dont even give themselves a chance to see what theyll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what Ill look like before I start cleaning the slates. – Julia Roberts
Although as a sailor I despised politics – for I loved my sailors life and still love it today – conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. – Fritz Sauckel
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. – Bernadine Dohrn
