Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Dirk Benedict

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Aldous Huxley

Civilization is sterilization.

Aldous Huxley

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

E. M. Forster

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Dean Koontz

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Alexander Pope

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Ron Kaufman

When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

Tim Daly

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Deepak Chopra

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

Alberto Moravia

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

Alfred Stieglitz

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.