Age life Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image ““No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age life Bears Life Our society Savage Life Savages
“Europeans had thought only of enriching themselves as the local population starved to death.58” — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must be remedied. We must learn at the feet of Europe, but not at the sacrifice of our Eastern individuality. But this is precisely what we have not done. We have dabbled a little in English and… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share
“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When people failed to be something good in life or to achieve something good. They become savages. Since they cant rise, they decide to… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“I should have chose starvation in my own country over abundance in a strange one.” — Anne Sweazy-Kulju Copy Share Image
“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.” — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want… — Carié Maas Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today… — Alma Hogan Snell Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Iam a teenage girl, I love, get my heart broken, break heart, parrty, sleep like there's no tommorow, ake mistakes, tears, get into fight,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average life span increases. — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
“sixty-seven years.14 Not anymore. Today the final three Ds in our chain reaction can disassemble companies and disrupt industries almost overnight, reducing the average… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson. — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
“Death was a constant fact of life. The reaper struck with fire and drowning; typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and a host of other diseases;… — Barbara Weisberg Copy Share Image
“In an average lifetime, a heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.” — Jenny Kellett Copy Share Image
“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image