Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
US educator & Transcendentalist (1799 - 1888) Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 - 1941) Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
US social worker, sociologist, & suffragist (1860 - 1935) A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn
US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974) Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;<br> Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!<br> Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!<br> Once there was The People - it shall never be again! Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
(1876 - 1944) Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Henry George
US economist (1839 - 1897) Every woman knows all about everything. Rudyard Kipling, The Eye of Allah (1926)
British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) Funny how the new things are the old things. Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind. John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998 | 
