Civilization Quote by Jean Renoir Download Open image “The foundation of all civilization is loitering.” — Jean Renoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Foundation
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas,… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.” — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The only things that are important in life are the things you remember. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
