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civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley
clothes brain body
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. Alfred North Whitehead
clothes hands care
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. Charles Dickens
lasts months
The last 29 days of the month are the toughest! Nikola Tesla