Civilization Theme Quotes & Sayings

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. — T. S. Eliot

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme. — Ernesto Cardenal

I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop. — Al Franken

Mister if you want more to join,' She said half-choked 'you'll have to put in the coin. — Angelo Tsanatelis

We must forgive our enemies. — Robert E.Lee

People expected too much from forgiveness. — Katarina Bivald

Perhaps it is not love that motivates effective altruists but empathy, the ability to put oneself in the position of others and identify with their feelings or emotions. Writers like de Waal and Jeremy Rifkin have seized on the idea of empathy as, to use de Waal's words, "the grand theme of our time."4 Rifkin believes that civilization has spread the reach of empathy beyond the family and the community so that it covers all of humankind. — Peter Singer

I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way. — Hannah Simone

I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."

"Oh? And what's the difference?"

"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both. — D.G. Whiskey

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon. — Joseph J. Lhota

Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. — George Sand

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. — Barry Sanders

many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to convey large objects of indeterminate nature. On one occasion they were spied in considerable numbers, a detachment of them wading along a shallow woodland watercourse three abreast in evidently disciplined formation. Once a specimen was seen flying - launching itself from the top of a bald, lonely hill at night and vanishing in the sky after its great flapping wings had been silhouetted an instant against the full moon. These — H.P. Lovecraft

The trick is not to get hooked on the highs and lows and mistake an activated attachment system for passion or love. Don't let emotional unavailability turn you on. — Amir Levine