Quotes of: Civil-rights-act Keyword

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Gustave Courbet

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

John Henrik Clarke

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Dave Hickey

The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".

Jeremy Grantham

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

Jason Epstein

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Samuel P. Huntington

Lou: Reject the basic assumption of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Fight Club

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

Joseph P. Bradley

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Mark McKinnon

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

Rami Malek

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Andrew Young

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jill Lepore

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Mercy Otis Warren