Agreement Quote by Karl Kraus

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