Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Paul Watson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Roger Ebert

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Robert Fulghum

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Kane Freeman

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Leonard Woolf

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

Sherwood Anderson

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Paul Harris

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Jacob K. Javits

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Will Rogers

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle