“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
Source: The Beast God Forgot to Invent
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Jim Harrison20
American novelist, poet, essayist 1937–2016Related quotes
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
“The Circle,” p. 39
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e
“Piss on the world, or it’ll piss on you.”
David Brin book Glory Season
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 9 (p. 155)
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Context: There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done. Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought to consent to marry the man they have decided to live with; and they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!) to have the most advanced views attainable on the subject, urge them on no account to compromise themselves without the security of an authentic wedding ring.
