One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would… — Buckethead Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
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There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
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