Civilizers Quotes & Sayings

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: Yeah, show up. — Tom T. Hall

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things. — Dougray Scott

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important. — Donald Trump

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. — Lawrence Korb

Attraction doesn't follow a set of rules, you know. But I know that I don't look at the others like I look at you. — Maya Banks

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation
a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner. — Herman Melville

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. — Benjamin Disraeli

Stable husbanding of the land requires community-wide language and norms for resolving interpersonal conflict, facilitating barter and trade, determining shares of work and output and maintaining organizational hierarchies. Although such social functions are the requisites of community life everywhere, the ways of performing them evolve differently from place to place. Each society develops its practices and sets of myths, symbols and rational justifications, which usually are held to be superior to those of other societies.
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And just as material reasons for self-sufficiency can turn communities towards economic imperialism, so the ideational justifications for autonomy can turn them into presumptuous civilizers of other peoples. — Seyom Brown