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.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

Richard Powers

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Richard Rogers

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Samuel Hahnemann

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Sarah Dessen

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Robert Farrar Capon

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Saint Basil

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

William Gurnall

One Almighty is more than all mighties

William Barclay

Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.

William H. Seward

There is no social life outside of Christendom.

Yann Martel

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Orson Pratt

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

John Gresham Machen

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.