Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Wendell Berry

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Walter Mosley

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Yoko Ono

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Joseph Addison

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

James Anthony Froude

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Emmy Rossum

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Willie Jackson

I think it comes and goes, ... It all depends on the situation at the particular time.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Jacques Bernard

Haiti's future depends on this vote. Good elections are the only solution to saving our nation.

George Pierce Baker

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Long Yongtu

There are still a few months. It depends on WTO members.

Bob Woolmer

It is all about how you perform on the field. It is a mental game and how well you display your talent depends on one's confidence.

Lou Marino

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

Robert Jarvis

I think we've got a chance, an opportunity. A lot depends on how we execute, and our young guys can't let the pressure get to them.