Civilization Quote by Kenneth W. Harl Download Open image “He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.” — Kenneth W. Harl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Doe Grunt Running Wells Writing
“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve --… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu 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
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
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
