Nell Scovell Quotes

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

No arts, no letters - no society.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

The Iranians and the Syrians, sipping their coffee in their cafes discussing politics, want to fight the Israelis to the last Lebanese and the last Palestinian.

I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts…. its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.