Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

Sarah Hall

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

She was very proud of the Civil Service Commission work,

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Edgar Mitchell

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

Edgar Mitchell

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Edward Abbey

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Lee Child

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

We're confident that a jury will see that this was a deal between friends. There was no criminal intent. This is a civil matter.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Richard Rogers

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

Roger Sherman

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Marc Morial

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Major Owens

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

John Galbraith

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

Jacques Chirac

To better help the youth, notably the youth in difficulty, to move toward employment, I've decided to create a voluntary civil service,

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.