Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

—Oscar Wilde

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

—Max Nordau

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

—Julian Jaynes

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

—Jane Addams

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

—Henry Allen

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

—Havelock Ellis

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

—Bourke Cockran

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

—Aristotle

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

—Amos Bronson Alcott

More about this quote

Tags:
civilization
Permalink for this quote

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

—Thomas Tusser

More about this quote

Tags:
Christmas
Permalink for this quote

Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.

—Matt Groening

More about this quote

Tags:
Christmas
Permalink for this quote

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

—Matt Groening

More about this quote

Tags:
Christmas
Permalink for this quote

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

—Lenore Hershey

More about this quote

Tags:
Christmas
Permalink for this quote

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

—Irish Proverb

More about this quote

Tags:
Christmas
Permalink for this quote