Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Corbyn

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Nicolas Davila

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.

The regulation says that if you leave the job for a period of 14 days without communication you can be terminated. I don't think they have the right to a civil service appeal.

We are going to be having, hopefully it will be the largest civil rights demonstration in the history of Dallas, Texas -- 100,000-plus.

Bill Smith

The lesson I learned from this one is not so much in the details of the network design or preparedness, but the issues we dealt with in facing a situation with civil unrest and security issues for our employees.

John Conyers

the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Americans. It means it's a national honor.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

James Norman Hall

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

James Lovelock

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Joe Rogan

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

John Dos Passos

The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.

John Milius

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Johan Huizinga

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

Johan Huizinga

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

Jimmy Sangster

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

George Leonard

It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.

George Clooney

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

Eckhart Tolle

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Kenneth Clark

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Narendra Modi

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Napoleon Hill

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

Loren Eiseley

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Malcolm Forbes

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Freya Stark

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.