Quotes about civil
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. Henry Ward Beecher
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 important-events history
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind. Madame de Stael
civilization bread pieces
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? Haruki Murakami
civilization people fence
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley
civilization diversity pillars
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. Pete Hegseth
civilization looks internals
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is. Phylicia Rashad
civilization cities storm
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
civilization cities serious
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
civilization race justice
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age. Kelly Miller
civilization people knees
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose. Kathleen Sebelius
civilization two savages
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized. Pearl S. Buck
civilization world levels
The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level. Peter Thiel
civilization
Civilization has always been a bust. Peter Fonda
civilization zippers wedding-day
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed. Peter Scott
civilization degrees generations
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem
civil-rights abandon presses
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. Thomas Jefferson
civilization modern accepted
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. Tahar Ben Jelloun
civilization competition records
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. T Bone Burnett
civilization atheism done
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity. Rodney Stark
civilization sickness illness
civilization is a transient sickness. Robinson Jeffers
civil-war kind mercy
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. Robert E. Lee
civil-war christ poor
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
civilization giving justice
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. Rebecca West
civilization challenges world
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. Thomas P. Campbell
civilization two way
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state. Thomas Paine
civilization silence speech
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. Thomas E. Mann