Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Peter DeFazio

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

William Odom

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the...

Milton Friedman

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spiri...

Wolfman Jack

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.

Conor Oberst

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil libe...

Harry Browne

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world...

Anthony Holden

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilizati...

Alva Myrdal

They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on. Civilization will never reach perfection until the last stone of the last church has fallen on the last priest, and the earth is rid of that e...

Umberto Eco

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the ...

The Lost Princess of Oz

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

How Civilizations Die

Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Nick Nolte

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown