Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The Left Hand of Darkness

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Walden & Civil Disobedience

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Walden & Resistance to Civil Government

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

A Civil Campaign

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

Totally Joe

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

Neil Young

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Ralph Caplan

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Rachel Carson

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Thomas Jefferson

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Moshe Katsav

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Ralph G. Neas

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.

Mark Twain

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Norman Granz

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Henry Knox