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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
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age.
~civil disobedience quotes by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
~good sayings about Conformity by Kin Hubbard
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
~civil quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
~motivational quotes about Funny Saying sayings by Samuel Goldwyn.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~civil sayings by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
Spend the afternoonYou can't take it with you
~civil disobedience quotes by Annie Dillard
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
~good sayings about Ignorance by Author Unknown
The truest difference between the man and the boy: the man is aiming at a goal; the boy is drifting aimlessly.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till
~motivational quotes about Education sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~civil sayings by Anton Chekhov
The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.
~civil disobedience quotes by Thomas Hill
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
~good sayings about Environment by Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~civil quotes by Author Unknown
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
~motivational quotes about Grief sayings by Sascha, posted on Motivating Moments
You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.
~civil sayings by Author Unknown
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
~civil disobedience quotes by Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something
~good sayings about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Henry David Thoreau
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them
~civil quotes by Bernard M. Baruch
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
~motivational quotes about Driving sayings by Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
~civil sayings by Author Unknown
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