Ernesto Cardenal Quotes

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

Ernesto Cardenal

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• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Important
  • Most
  • Victim

• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Cooking
  • Civilization

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Test

• I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Words

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Society
  • Action
  • Purpose

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Today
  • Looks
  • Civilization

• ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Civilization
  • Doe

• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Way
  • Victim
  • Deceit

• If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Country
  • Victim
  • Greater

• The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Civilization

• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

  

  James Cook
  • Life
  • Victim
  • Trapped

• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Civilization
  • Doe
  • Morality

• If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Perspective
  • Clear
  • Reader

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Leadership
  • Loneliness

• I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in the Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in a bowl game. I cherish the memories.

  

  Barry Alvarez
  • Play
  • Memories
  • Bowl Game

• I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Civilization
  • Victim
  • I Consider