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?

Woodrow Wilson

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Will Cuppy

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Will Durant

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Rebecca Solnit

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Sorin Cerin

By understanding Evil just as well as Good, the human being will understand itself and with this it will disappear the self alienation of man at an individual level as at the social level.

Charles Smith

I know of no law government can use for that. The nearest there is are the regulations of the Alienation of Land Act, but its terms are too narrow to be the basis of a moratorium.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Jon Katz

There's a streak of alienation running through this culture, ... There's a streak of braininess, obsessiveness. I mean, anybody can use a computer, but not anybody's a geek.

Marilyn Nelson

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Richard Greenberg

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Terry Southern

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.