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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

George W. Bush

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

George Steiner

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

George Orwell

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Fernand Braudel

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Felix Adler

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

Henry Miller

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Clare Boothe Luce

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Anthony Horowitz

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Randy Newman

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

Michael Lewis

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Erwin Rommel

No plan survives contact with the enemy

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Francis Parker Yockey

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

George Washington

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.