Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon
![[M]odern man is just ancient man - with way better electronics. -](/quote/odern-just-ancient-with-better-electronics.jpg "[M]odern man is just ancient man - with way better electronics. -")
