Act Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image “If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Culture Faith Little Me More Religion
“«How do we justify calling ourselves civilised, after all? Is it the books we read? The delicacy of our tastes? Our place in continuing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil.… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK,… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act.… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
