Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

[first lines] Narrator: 1879 - the Civil War is over, and the resulting economic explosion spurs the great migration west. Farmers, ranchers, prospectors, killers, and thieves seek their fortune. Cattle growers turn cow towns into armed camps, with m...

Tombstone

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Expensive People

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

Gone with the Wind

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Robert Kiyosaki

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Carlisle Floyd

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Alta

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

The Status Civilization

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

Shattered Duty

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

On the Shortness of Life

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Secret Rendezvous

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

The Theory of Clouds

Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.

Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

Rules of Civility

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Pete Hegseth

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Thor Heyerdahl

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell