E. Digby Baltzell Quotes
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
E. Digby Baltzell
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
Halima Aden
Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
Eddie Marsan
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
Victoria Azarenka
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover
I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
Kate O'Mara
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
Tavi Gevinson
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
H. R. McMaster
The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
Dambisa Moyo
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
David Novak
If we're not able to launch our own people and operate our own spacecraft anymore then, you know, space - whether it should be or not, it's seen as like a harbinger of technology. If you can fly people into space, if you can operate into space, then you've got high technology and if you're the leader of that, then you're the leader in technology. If we lose that on a more or less permanent basis, or for a long period of time, my fear is that it will creep into the national psyche in all areas and we as a nation as a whole will kind of be diminished.
Leroy Chiao
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
Gavin Newsom
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
Philip Roth
The church has given me balance.
Jennifer Hudson
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
E. Digby Baltzell
