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?

William Henry Harrison

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

Walter Bagehot

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Walter Benjamin

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Werner Herzog

We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

Werner Herzog

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Kenneth Clark

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

Tony Blair

What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,

Leon Bourgeois

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

Chris Seeger

I think they were much better prepared this time. They knew their documents better and their cross-examinations were better.

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Silvio Berlusconi

I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,

Emmett Brown

The documentation was very well put together. It was comprehensive and left no doubt about what the people signing the documents saw and witnessed.

Michael Hulley

As you saw I only got some of the documents this morning.

and City

All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian investigation have been retained and preserved by the Getty.

Carol Reed

American taxpayers are forced to subsidize education, health care, food stamps and other generous government services for illegal immigrants, as well as the printing of government documents in other languages.

Dee Stanley

We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

Stephen Cutler

Destruction of documents is obviously an extremely serious matter. Documents are an essential ingredient in our investigations.