Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

John Ralston Saul

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

Josiah Strong

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Ezra Stiles

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Maureen O'Hara

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig von Mises

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Arthur Holly Compton

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Felix Frankfurter

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

Mo Ibrahim

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Ambrose Bierce

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Robert Andrews Millikan

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Winston S. Churchill

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Woody Hayes

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell