Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Clint Dempsey

You have to set the tone early. We're just going to play hard.

Jane Austen

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Alphonsus Liguori

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

A. J. P. Taylor

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Orson Scott Card

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Mark Buchanan

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Publilius Syrus

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

John Tillotson

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.