Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Patricia Schroeder

What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And mean...

Ali Smith

Let him who does not know what war is go to war.

Chinese

A blanket could be used to stop a war, particularly if that war is a Cold War.  

Brick

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

George Will

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't abo...

Avril Lavigne

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

A Civil Campaign

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

To America with Love

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Walden & Civil Disobedience

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Walden & Resistance to Civil Government

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

A Civil Campaign

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

Totally Joe

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

Neil Young

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Ralph Caplan