Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

Adam Levine

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Jeb Bush

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Claudio Hummes

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Arthur Keith

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Elie Ducommun

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

E. M. Forster

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Gustave Flaubert

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Jacqueline Patricks

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Ezra Stiles

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

George McGovern

Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Civilization, and syphilization, have advanced together.

Dracula

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens