Civilisation Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image ““There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Civilization Decline Hope Nation Ruin
“You keep talking about ruining something. Why worry about that? We've been ruined for a long time. I'm good in the ruins; it's my… — Peter Craig Copy Share Image
“If we are undone, we are the most splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe.” — Charles Thomson Copy Share Image
“The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“In some nations day broke after a long night, but it is clouded with chaos and corruption.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The town lay beneath their feet, its outskirts in ruin from the negligence of arrogant people who thought it was acceptable to let everything… — Konstantina P Copy Share Image
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The downfall of any great nation...always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing here. That’s the beauty of this part of the world: there’s fuck all bastards to ruin it.” — Steve McHugh Copy Share Image
“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The world destroys itself and we rebuild it. The destroying is as important as the rebuilding. There can be as much joy in the… — Jade Chang Copy Share Image
“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
