Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

Martha Plimpton

I like things that are civilized.

Marie Stopes

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Ted Cruz

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

Theodore Roethke

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

Theodore Dreiser

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Margaret Sanger

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

Margaret Sanger

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Margaret Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Margaret Mead

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

Margaret Mead

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

Marcus Garvey

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

Marcus Garvey

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

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

Condoleezza Rice

impeccable on civil rights, impeccable on the interests of African-Americans, and I'm quite comfortable with his decision.

Rod Steiger

I'm old enough to remember the '60's and the civil rights movement and all the strong tension between the races that existed during that time.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

If Matt Doherty and Jim Reilly win this race, it will help civil rights initiatives of every kind.

Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

The film is 100 percent Venezuelan-funded, ... We made the film at a time when the nation was in a civil war and there was a two-month oil strike. The nation stopped working.

Sigmund Freud

the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.