Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

James Earl Jones

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

Traian Basescu

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

Adolf Hitler

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorse...

Glenn Greenwald

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed...

Whittaker Chambers

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and nume...

Antony Beevor

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Harri Holkeri

Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the prog...

The Matrix

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Joseph Wambaugh

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Jack Scalia

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

John Lydon

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

John Milius

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has ...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

Carl Denham: And now, ladies and gentlemen, before I tell you any more, I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld. He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization merely a captive - a show to g...

King Kong