All Quotes

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
‐‐ Timothy Leary

Civilization is what makes you sick.
‐‐ Paul Gauguin

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
‐‐ Ralph Chaplin

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
‐‐ Richard Bach

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.
‐‐ James A. Forbes

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
‐‐ Alfred Marshall

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
‐‐ Robert E. Howard

CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.
‐‐ CJ Adams

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
‐‐ James Larkin

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
‐‐ Sam Graves

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
‐‐ Elihu Root

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
‐‐ Charlie Cox

Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
‐‐ Jane Leavy

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
‐‐ Charles Lamb

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and new, using the clarinet as an expressive tool and not in one genre. I'm just happy that people are drawn to what I do.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

Clarity affords focus.
‐‐ Thomas Leonard

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
‐‐ George Oppen

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity keeps you from boredom.
‐‐ Kim Basinger

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
‐‐ A. Scott Berg

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
‐‐ Esther Williams

Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

Clark Gregg is so cool. He's a pretty cool cat. People are drawn to him.
‐‐ Maurissa Tancharoen

Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.
‐‐ Joe Shuster

'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
‐‐ Thomas Carper

Class-action lawsuits should allow those with serious injuries to have their own day in court. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act would do just that.
‐‐ Trent Franks

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
‐‐ Ann Landers