Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>