What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted
Lin YutangMen resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
Lin YutangA man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
Lin Yutang