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.

Raymond Loewy

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Victor Davis Hanson

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

Victor Hugo

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Victor Hugo

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Vernon Lee

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

Vaclav Havel

We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.

Vaclav Havel

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

James Lee Burke

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

Henry David Thoreau

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

Joe Chung

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Ron Paul

Let the revolution begin.

Storm Jameson

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Vano Merabishvili

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Suzanne Collins

While you live, the revolution lives

Tablo

Revolution begins with one step

William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

James Levine

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.