Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Catherine Colonna

Let us do for energy what we once did for coal and steel.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Peter Pace

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Nazrul Islam

Only two countries-- Indonesia and Australia--export coal more than 50 percent of their domestic use.

John C. McGinley

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

Juergen Trittin

If we get the necessary majority, there will be coalition negotiations very soon.

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

Ian Somerhalder

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

Leonardo DiCaprio

We only get one planet.

Jeremy Jackson

I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.

Maya Angelou

When we know better, we do better.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Peter Mandelson

There is no high-carbon future

Rush Limbaugh

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

Rush Limbaugh

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

Steve King

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.