Status Civilization Quotes

#1. An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

Maya Rodale

#2. Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

Bill Mauldin

#3. Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

C.S. Lewis

#5. A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

#6. The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

Terence McKenna

#7. The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

Marshall Sahlins

#8. The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

Victor Davis Hanson

#9. I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially ... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Hans Arp

#10. Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#11. Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

Robert Sheckley

#12. No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute ... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

Crystal Eastman

#13. The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I'm a U.S. Senator, I will fight to protect the basic rights and liberties that belong to all of us as American citizens.

Rand Paul

#14. The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

Antonio Gramsci

#15. The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

James Alan Gardner

#16. And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

Richard Tarnas

#17. Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

Alyson Noel