Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of…

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life…

— Karl Kraus

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

— Adam Smith

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter…

— Karl Kraus

“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in…

— Joseph O Connor

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption…

— Germaine Greer

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

— Ellen Key

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and…

— Edward S. Herman

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit…

— Dave Snowden

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one…

— Woody Allen

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I make a deal with the audience every time I direct a movie. The deal always is this: I'm showing you this world in…

— Frank Oz

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding…

— Pierre Bourdieu

In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront…

— William J. Duiker

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends…

— Sam Harris