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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so

Muhammad Yunus

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

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.

Rebecca West

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

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?

Rose Macaulay

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Tryon Edwards

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

Denise Reed

I actually thought he was giving away stuff. There was a lot of people here. It's good he accommodated people the way he did, and he did it with a smile.

Paul Moran

He leads by example. He's not a guy that will be yelling and giving orders. He is now showing how to lead with his play on the court. He's starting to play some big-time basketball.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

James Awad

Greenspan is giving a speech Monday night to some overseas bankers, then Thursday he will speak to Congress. Investors will be looking to him to clarify.

Jalen Rose

Guys were giving up good shots to get great shots.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Bobby Pierce

He's a guy that knows the strike zone well. We'll be giving him more opportunities.

Tom Cooper

He's already been to the penitentiary. He knows what it's like. He wants to go back, ... You would be giving him what he wants.

Jeff Hodson

Just to know that he's going to the DOC is such a relief. Justice was served.

Carla Ponte

I also regret it for the victims, the thousands of victims, who have been waiting for justice.

Diane Jacobowitz

He really taught us about social justice and that was something that was very important to him. He thought it was something about being Jewish, to stand up for something right and to make sure the underdog's rights were stood up for.

Bruce Gordon

It is not a just justice system when it comes to people of color.

Vladimir Lenin

Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.

Sonia Johnson

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the

Luis Carrillo

He made a wise ruling to keep the supervisors in the suit. We want a trial and we want justice.

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.