Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Malraux

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 Maurois

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.

Ambrose Bierce

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

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Cynthia Ozick

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

Cyril Connolly

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

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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.

Cornel West

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.

Cormac McCarthy

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.

Clifford Stoll

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Andrew Sarris

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Andre Gide

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Alvin Toffler

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffler

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

Chuck Palahniuk

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Chuck Klosterman

Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than anything else, and yet every really big problem - whether it's the environment or who dictates the international economy because of oil - is all tied to cars. Ultimately, cars are bad for civilization. I don't know if they'll end us.

Stephen Hawking

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Joel Salatin

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

Andrew Carnegie

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

David Hare

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

Anti-terrorism is a fight between justice and evil, civilization and savagery.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing.

Sid Meier

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Thomas E. Mann

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'

Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Hu Jintao

This victory saved human civilization and prevented a retrogression of history,