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?

Will Durant

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Will Durant

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Will Durant

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Will Durant

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Will Durant

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Rosalind Murray

I think it's apathy that's been fueled by the feeling like you have the inability to change anything in your life.

Yolanda King

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Tony Leon

The inevitable upshot is increased voter apathy and disengagement with the political process.

Mary Williams

It just seems there is more apathy now and the only time people come forward is to complain.

Publilius Syrus

Apathy borders upon folly.

Michael Maddox

Apathy is why we end up with ridiculous laws. People say, 'That is crazy and will never pass,' but then it does.

Emiliano Salinas

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

John Dos Passos

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

David Briggs

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.

Nicolas Sobczak

It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future.

Rebecca Solnit

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Ellen Glasgow

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

Martin Heidegger

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

Polybius

All things are subject to decay and change...

Marcus Aurelius

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

John Donne

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

Garrett Hardin

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?