Quotes about civil
civilization world landscape
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. Northrop Frye
civilization century theater
There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Orson Welles
civilization trying culture
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. Oriana Fallaci
civilization infinite reducing
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell Holmes
civilization taxation taxes-funny
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
civilization people way
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. Octavia Butler
civilization differences progress
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death Octavio Paz
civilization progress culture
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
civilization obsession moments
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. Emile M. Cioran
civilization self advice
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
civilization humanity fonts
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? Ellen Lupton
civilization shapes film
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
civilization information dawn
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days. Eric Schmidt
civilization interesting lucky
I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends. Hiroshi Sugimoto
civilization leaving departed
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
civilization black flags
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization. Henry Rollins
civilization justice world
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization Hideki Tojo
civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization islam roles
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. John Henrik Clarke
civilization light world
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
civil fight generation inspired movement people pioneer refused rights seat sick tired
a pioneer in the civil rights movement who one day was just sick and tired of being sick and tired, and refused to give up her seat and inspired a whole generation of people to fight for freedom. Condoleezza Rice
civil founder future liberties roger served
served as inspiration for Roger Baldwin, a future founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Emma Goldman
civilians drive exercises held intimidate local midst population security tense training winter
So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.
civilization evolution handed healer helper hundred intelligence passed planet rescued stood thousand
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. Richard Bach
civilization two tea
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel. Ayn Rand
civilization islam spain
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary... Bertrand Russell
civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
civilization spaghetti roman-civilization
A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization! Benito Mussolini
civilization religion highest
Religion is civilization, the highest. Benjamin Disraeli
civilization dwelling house
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
civilization tendencies monarchy
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.