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  • [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes
  • The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes
  • In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Heart Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Land Quotes
  • Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Land Quotes
  • Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Truth Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Land Quotes