Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Eagleton

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization depends on morality.

Shirin Ebadi

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

Shirin Ebadi

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shimon Peres

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Seth

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

Seth

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

Lewis Mumford

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

Leslie Caron

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Leslie Caron

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Leonard Nimoy

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

Leonard Nimoy

I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

Peter Thiel

The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.

Peter Fonda

Civilization has always been a bust.

Peter Scott

Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.

Pete Hegseth

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Phylicia Rashad

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

James F. Cooper

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

Henry A. Kissinger

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Henry A. Kissinger

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Henry George

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.

Henry George

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Henry Ford

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

John Cheever

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

John Boyd Orr

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.