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'.

Crystal Eastman

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

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.

Alexander Crummell

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have