Quotes of: Civil-disobedience Keyword

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

The Folk of the Fringe

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?

The Faded Sun Trilogy

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The Fire Next Time

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

Hush, Hush

Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne

The Barefoot Princess

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Brave New World

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you'r...

Jeffrey Kluger

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Pranab Mukherjee

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...

Rob Sheffield

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization.

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I Can't Stay Long

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

King Kull

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Killosophy

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

The Social Contract