"Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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More Civility Quotes
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
— Danny Boyle
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and…
— Richard Carmona
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment…
— Francis Bacon
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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