Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.

The Cello Suites: In Search of a Baroque Masterpiece

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

The Dream of Scipio

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Ender in Exile

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Fahrenheit 451

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

The Great Gatsby

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

House Atreides

The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

Bill Dedman

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Douglas Rushkoff

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

G. Stanley Hall

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

Jared Sparks

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

Marianne Williamson

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

Minoru Yamasaki