#civil

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civil




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


Wendell Berry


#rebellion #civilization

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.


Joe Biden


#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #concerned #during

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.


Marion Zimmer Bradley


#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.


James Buchan


#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.


Ken Burns


#am #america #called #civil #civil war

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.


John Burroughs


#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.


Shoshana Zuboff


#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.


Helena Bonham Carter


#back #before #being #civilized #easy