Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Robert Frost

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

T Bone Burnett

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Jack Kingston

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Anthony Lewis

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Dan Savage

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Irving Thalberg

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Noam Chomsky

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Nations and Nationalism

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, le...

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive f...

Parable of the Sower

Every nation needs more people who love liberty, fear mob rule, and hate tyranny with the consistent logic and passion of Alexis de Tocqueville. He is still quoted by presidential candidates, but too often he’s ignored by presidents, and therein li...

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization c...

Robert H. Jackson

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilizatio...

Robert H. Jackson

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploi...

C.S. Lewis

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..

Understand Roman Civilization a Teach Yourself Guide

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

George McGovern

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

Paul Weller

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Muhtar Kent