Species Infecting

Famous quotes containing the words species and/or infecting:

“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)