Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.

Lighten Up

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

The Poisonwood Bible

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

The Persian Letters

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

Tales of Nevèrÿon

Kalau Islam berarti menyerahkan diri, maka kita semua hidup dan mati dalam Islam - Goethe

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Paul Ryan

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Jack Lessenberry

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Otto Rank

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Paul D. Boyer

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Rita Mae Brown

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Red Cloud

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

Roald Dahl

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Robert E. Howard

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

Robert H. Jackson

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Stephen Hawking