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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

George W. Bush

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

George Steiner

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

George Orwell

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Fernand Braudel

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Felix Adler

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

Henry Miller

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Demi Lovato

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

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.