Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Alice Walker

Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Munich

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Najib Razak

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Sonia Sotomayor

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

Paul Farmer

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Georges Bernanos

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Hillary Clinton

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Andrew Weil

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Vladimir Putin

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

W. L. George

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Wilson Rawls

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Wole Soyinka

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

Yotam Ottolenghi