Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Emile M. Cioran

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Ellen Lupton

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Eric Schmidt

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Henry Rollins

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

Hideki Tojo

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization

Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Helen Suzman

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Narendra Modi

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Napoleon Hill

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Napoleon Hill

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

Northrop Frye

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Orson Welles

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Oriana Fallaci

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Octavia Butler

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

Octavio Paz

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Mason Cooley

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

Marie Stopes

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

Theodore Roethke

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

Henry Ford

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.