The Earth Civil

Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or civil:

    For Man is God
    and man is eating the earth up
    like a candy bar
    and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean
    for it is known he will gulp it all down.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)