Quotes about civil
civilians
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
civilization people barbarians
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. J. M. Coetzee
civilization people promise
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time. H. G. Wells
civilization two risk
We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. J. Robert Oppenheimer
civilization imagination important
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. Ray Bradbury
civilization pieces
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
civilization library
Without the library, you have no civilization.
civilization class creative
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. Ralph Adams Cram
civilization christianity hoping-for-the-best
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes. George Steiner
civilization clothes gestures
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. George Orwell
civil continue people point quite start talking
They were ... quite civil yesterday. And I think it will continue even today, ... And pretty soon, people will get to the point when they'll start talking substantively. Willie Brown
civil community leaders rights
They were the community leaders. They were the leaders of the civil rights struggle.
civilian farther follow rules trigger
they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
civilization taming chores
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. Christopher Hitchens
civilization political levels
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other Christopher Dawson
civilization age different
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
civilization progress dies
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis
civilization fragile
There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
civilization alcohol poison
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
civilization would-be wonderful
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. Hayao Miyazaki
civilization rewards restaurants
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. Harry Golden
civilization ideas dodge
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas. Gordon Getty
civilization individual nations
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. Giuseppe Mazzini
civilization lows no-money
In societies of low civilization, there is no money. Herbert Spencer
civilization barbarism militarism
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
civilization progress homogeneity
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
civilization world results
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. Herman Melville
civilization vaults economics
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine. Henry David Thoreau
civilization may too-much
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
civilization earth ecology
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
civilized
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time. Jean Kerr
civilization people wicked
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. James A. Baldwin
civilization levels term
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Fulton J. Sheen