Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Ralph Chaplin

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.

Saleem Durrani

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

Sonny Rollins

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

Toby Forward

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Laura Anne Gilman

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Maurice Strong

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ , ALA interview 2011]

Neil Gaiman

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Nicolas Cage

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Norman Borlaug

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Nina Fedoroff

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.

Christopher Dawson

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Rand Paul

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Dennis Prager

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

Bob Barr

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

George W. Bush

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Edward James Olmos