31 Quotes About Sophistication

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

In order to be good, one needs to be virtuous, not "nice". In order to be true, one needs to be honest, not "authentic". In order to be wise, one needs to be discriminating, not "open-minded". And in order to be civilized, one needs to be principled, not "sophisticated".