Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Vladimir Putin

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

William Wells Brown

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Wendell Berry

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to un...

The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism

Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and a...

Rats, Lice and History

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar approaching the start of civil exams, my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion with books on syntax and poetic style. All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains an...

Jim Chapson

Constance Harraway: [giving an anti-death penalty speech] When you kill someone, you rob their family - not just of a loved one, but of their humanity. You harden their hearts with hate, you take away their capacity for civilized dispassion, you cond...

The Life of David Gale

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Fahrenheit 451

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Foundation's Edge

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Simon Raven

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

Alva Myrdal

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James Henry Breasted

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Diane Paulus

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Anna Karenina

It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.

Master of Stupidity

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

The Light Between Oceans

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Père Goriot

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert V. Prochnow