Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Allen Ginsberg

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

Ann Coulter

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Conrad Black

The criminal aspect, from a shareholder's perspective, is important because it helps Hollinger International prove its civil case. Shareholders are not recovering meaningful money as a result of the criminal actions. $250,000 is great, but when you're looking for $500 million it doesn't go a long way.

Mike Jackson

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

Cindy Sheehan

What I think it?s going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country, ... Go to your senators? offices, to federal buildings. Sit down and say enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime.

Sarah Vowell

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Abraham Lincoln

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Harri Holkeri

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Alex Smith

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

Albert Einstein

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

Greg Boyle

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Alfred Nobel

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Alexander Pushkin

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Aberjhani

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Daniel Pipes

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Daniel Quinn

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

Cory Booker

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

Rudy Giuliani

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

Gregory Maguire

I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

Albert Camus

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

Alexander Crummell

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.