Quotes about civil
civilization age process
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. Alva Myrdal
civilization age church
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. Andre Malraux
civilization two culture
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. Andre Maurois
civilization air elements
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Ambrose Bierce
civilization noise ears
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
civilization excess barbarism
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. Alphonse de Lamartine
civil criminal helps looking meaningful million money prove recovering result
The criminal aspect, from a shareholder's perspective, is important because it helps Hollinger International prove its civil case. Shareholders are not recovering meaningful money as a result of the criminal actions. $250,000 is great, but when you're looking for $500 million it doesn't go a long way. Conrad Black
civilians council measures necessary resolution says taken
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear. Mike Jackson
civil federal peaceful sit stop
What I think it?s going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country, ... Go to your senators? offices, to federal buildings. Sit down and say enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime. Cindy Sheehan
civilization mind literature
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. E. M. Forster
civilization age groups
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit. Douglas Rushkoff
civilization feet atheism
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. Don Marquis
civilization roots foundation
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. Dinesh D'Souza
civilization belief produce
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. Cynthia Ozick
civilization luxury goal
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Cyril Connolly
civilization next decadence
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
civilization forgiven civilized
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
civilization elderly political
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
civilization nihilism culture
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Cornel West
civilization dachau foolish
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now. Cormac McCarthy
civilization house way
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. Clifford Stoll
civilization barbarism tendencies
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. David Hare
civilization survival strategy
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. Daniel Suarez
civilization agriculture founders
The farmers are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster
civilization jail people
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. David Gerrold
civilization looks stories
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. David Gemmell
civilization unbroken way
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. David Bohm
civilised
Civilised my syphilised yarbles. Anthony Burgess
civilization history moral nice record
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. Harlan Ellison
civil days kennedy mediation polarizing rights seen talents
Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.
civil gives happens katrina liberties worried
Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack. Lawrence Wilkerson
civil confirmed fine judge record rights
Judge Pickering has had a fine record on civil rights and should be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Laura Bush
civility conduct integrity lawyers proceed rules street themselves
He can't proceed with the civility the rules require. All lawyers have to conduct themselves with honesty, integrity and civility. This isn't a street fight,