Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

Winifred Gallagher

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

Christian Camargo

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Jim Leach

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it but at the same time utterly insular. A country touched by nostalgia, with a past so great - so marked by brilliance and achievement...

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don...

The Road to Wigan Pier

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great prob...

Les Misérables

Patrick Bateman: Come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about. Timothy Bryce: Like what? Patrick Bateman: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world h...

American Psycho

[Stout and Vanderleur are discussing how to get the Bailey bridge through town] Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: When you refer to Bailey crap I take it you mean that glorious, precision-made, British-built bridge which is the envy of the civilized worl...

A Bridge Too Far

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Expensive People

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

Gone with the Wind

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Carlisle Floyd