Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fulton J. Sheen

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Fulton J. Sheen

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.

Guy deBord

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

Immanuel Kant

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jennifer Esposito

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

Golda Meir

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Gregory David Roberts

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

Iain Banks

It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.

Hugo Chavez

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,

Howard Zinn

There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.

John Hurt

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

Edith Wharton

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Bill Bradley

I could never appoint someone to the Supreme Court who I thought would turn back the clock on civil rights, ... overblown.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Nicolas Davila

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

Fernand Braudel

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Felix Adler

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

Fannie Farmer

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Francis Parkman

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

It is their duty to protect humanitarian operations and civilians in their immediate vicinity,

Graham Spanier

It's a pretty happy civil environment. It's a sing-along, ... I've never been there without the band.

Stephanie Cutter

It will be an issue. When it comes down to it, he's on the wrong side of civil rights.

Avi Dichter

It will be a civilian disengagement only. It will not be a military disengagement.

It's a victory for justice and civil rights. It's a victory for people who have nothing at all except the dream of living in freedom.

It's a well-reasoned decision, and it does minimize privacy and civil liberties implications.

Julian Bond

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

It's a big struggle. Civil society organizations are constantly wasting time responding to irresponsible statements like these.

It's about time we exercised some of our civil rights.

Jane McGonigal

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Henry David Thoreau

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.