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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~civil disobedience quotes by Abraham Flexner
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~inspirational sayings about Civil Disobedience quotes by Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
~civil quotes by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text
~famous quotes about Books by James Lovelock
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
~civil sayings by Clarence Darrow
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
~civil disobedience quotes by Grover Cleveland, 1905
Integrity has no need of rules.
~inspirational sayings about Civil Disobedience quotes by Albert Camus
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
~civil quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
~famous quotes about Civilization by Lois McMaster Bujold
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~civil sayings by John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~civil disobedience quotes by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~inspirational sayings about Education quotes by Abraham Flexner
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
~civil quotes by Bertrand Russell
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
~famous quotes about Civilization by Sigmund Freud
Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
~civil sayings by Author Unknown
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
~civil disobedience quotes by Author Unknown
The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
~good sayings about Debt by Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacherThat is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number
~civil quotes by Author Unknown
An unwatched pot boils immediately.
~motivational quotes about Very True sayings by H.F. Ellis
Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off.
~civil sayings by Philip Larkin
A stumble may prevent a fall.
~civil disobedience quotes by English Proverb
Never mistake motion for action.
~good sayings about Famous Saying by Ernest Hemingway
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~civil quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations
~motivational quotes about Books sayings by Sir Winston Churchill
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
~civil sayings by Alfred North Whitehead
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~civil disobedience quotes by Plutarch
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
~good sayings about Libraries by Richard Powers
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~civil quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.
~motivational quotes about Dieting sayings by Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
~civil sayings by Patricia Sampson
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
~civil disobedience quotes by Leo Tolstoy
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.
~good sayings about Animal Rights by Ashley Montague
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
~civil quotes by Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, 1762
You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.
~motivational quotes about Jobs sayings by Martin H. Fischer
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience
~civil sayings by Author Unknown
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