Quotes of: Civil-service Keyword

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Brave New World

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you'r...

Jeffrey Kluger

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Pranab Mukherjee

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...

Rob Sheffield

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization.

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I Can't Stay Long

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

King Kull

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Killosophy

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

The Social Contract

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

The Misanthrope

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization. In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition. We define it as interplanomics.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

Some Mistakes of Moses

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

Our National Parks

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

Predatory Kill