Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

Terence McKenna

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

Peter Fonda

Civilization has always been a bust.

Phylicia Rashad

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

Josiah Strong

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,

Josiah Strong

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Kelly Miller

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.

Kathleen Sebelius

As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

Radhanath Swami

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Horace

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Guy Fieri

There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Gore Vidal

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Harold Washington

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Jamaica Kincaid

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Harry A. Blackmun

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

Gracie Allen

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

Glenn Greenwald

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

Gerry Spence

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

It is brave to be involved

Indira Gandhi

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

Jack Dempsey

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Jack Black

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.