Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

Marwan Muasher

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Tacitus

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

Don DeLillo

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Andy Warhol

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Edgar Wright

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Calista Flockhart

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

Fredric Jameson

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

Chris Wedge

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Francine Pascal

I always had a fascination with twins.

James Beard

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

Heather Mills

I got a fascination with food.