A Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

P. J. O'Rourke

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P. J. O'Rourke
American - Comedian
Born: November 14, 1947

One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

Hjalmar Söderberg

Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

Marvin J. Ashton

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Annie Lennox

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

Joshua Ostrander

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Winston Churchill

Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.

Alexander Skarsgard

No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.

Betsy DeVos

By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.

Wes Fesler

I make music, and if anyone wants to dislike it because of my logo, or lack thereof, then fine by me.

Varg Vikernes

Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.

Arno C. Gaebelein

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

Gwen Moore

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Muhammad Yunus

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

William Hurt

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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