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.

C. S. Lewis

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

Chris Young

We have no alternative now but to seek justice in the courts.

Robert Davis

When, exactly, did the American justice system become a competitive team sport?

Alan Lomax

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Charles Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Diane Watson

Justice deferred is justice denied.

David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Brinda Karat

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

Aime Cesaire

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

Ehud Barak

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

Albert Pike

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

Lajos Kossuth

The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

Jack Nicklaus

...said Nicklaus, 'was a brotherhood, I suppose'.

Max Lerner

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Nina Simone

Desegregation is a joke.