Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Marcuse

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

Evelyn Waugh

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Ernst Haeckel

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Erwin Rommel

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

Erwin Rommel

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

Erma Bombeck

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

Clashes occurred in highly populated areas, placing the civilian population in grave danger.

Richard Blumenthal

Civil unions performed in other states are entitled to full faith and credit in Connecticut. ... Out-of-state same-sex marriages have no legal force and effect here,

Civil rights are universal and no company has the right to violate them. Immigrants have made an incredibly positive contribution to our society and their rights should be respected here in Miami, just as in any other part of the country.

Civil liberties, human rights, political reform - that's front-page material. And I want 80 percent of the news to be local.

W. S. Gilbert

Civil liberties groups, conservative groups, immigration groups ? we've all been saying that Real ID will be a real disaster and needs to be revisited by Congress.

Civil liberties are more important than this terrorism thing they're trying to sell us.

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

Arthur Keith

Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

I have reached the conclusion that the risk of (the death penalty) ... being imposed by a civilian court is negligible,

In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... I think Nelson Mandela's comments about the importance of Rosa Parks has helped make civil rights sites here international sites of interest.

Flora Lewis

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Henry Miller

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Helen Keller

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Catharine Beecher

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

George Washington

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

G. H. Hardy

The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

Franz Boas

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

Frantz Fanon

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

Jerry Springer

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

J. B. Priestley

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

Irving Howe

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

Irving Babbitt

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.