Top 1200 Western Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.
Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.
