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.

Aslan Maskhadov

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Chen Ning Yang

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Bill O'Reilly

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Bill Gross

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Bernie Sanders

We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

David Cameron

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being

J. Philippe Rushton

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Ken Livingstone

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

Diablo Cody

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Alice Cary

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Dan Flynn

I was just walking up to the workshop one day and I plucked two gum leaves and I put them on the table and started playing with them.

Dave Grohl

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott

Cathy Nonas

After all, you have to take gum out in order to eat.

Chris Noth

It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street.

Dylan Penn

No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.

Paul Schneider

I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.