Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

Derek Jacobi

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Mary Baker Eddy

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

Patrick O'Brian

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

George W. Bush

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

Christopher Dutton

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Carrie Snow

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Harold Rosenberg

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bill Nye

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

Goldwin Smith

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Hayao Miyazaki

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Joel Osteen

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

John O'Hara

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Esther Dyson

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Ray Bradbury

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Havelock Ellis

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

John Mackey

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Nadine Labaki

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Adnan Pachachi

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell