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.

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'.

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.

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.

E. F. Schumacher

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Simone Elkeles

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Shahrukh Khan

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

Ralph Nader

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Plato

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Oscar Wilde

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Lactantius

But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those voices are not divine, but human.

Fidel Castro

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

Brandon Routh

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Jane Gardam

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Anthony Michael Hall

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Thomas Jefferson

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.’ (Nathan)

Sheryl Crow

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard

Mason Cooley

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Melanie Lynskey

If I could be working every day, I would be.

Michel de Montaigne

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.