"Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive,……" — Winston Churchill
"Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will"
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill has 1,057 quotes on this site.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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More Atavistic Quotes
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To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain…
— Norman Lamm
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind…
— Winston Churchill
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as…
— John Keegan
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
— Don DeLillo
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It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a…
— Antonin Artaud
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Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
— Howard Blum
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In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate,…
— William C. Brown
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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me,…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
— Penelope Lively
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I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of…
— Stephen Moyer
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