Quotes of: Civilized-society Keyword

I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles and he has a different role as society changes, and in different societies . . . He can be a seer at times, and in the eighteenth centu...

Peter Taylor

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Salman Rushdie

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Walden and Civil Disobedience

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Richard Foreman

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Terence McKenna

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

L. Neil Smith

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ida B. Wells

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Flora Lewis

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Bitsie Tulloch

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Jesse Ventura

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing

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