William J. Perry Quotes

“Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My”

William J. Perry

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• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Kids
  • Learn
  • Students

• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  

  Sallust
  • Bad
  • Measure
  • Precedent

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Make
  • Measure
  • Measurable

• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Growing
  • Human
  • Strange

• Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Civilization
  • Produced
  • Entombed

• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Cooking
  • Civilization

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Civilization
  • Dreamers

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• ... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Matter
  • Civilization
  • Civilized

• ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Civilization
  • Doe

• Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Quality
  • Measure

• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Organization

• Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Substance
  • Except

• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Peace

• “Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My”

  

  William J. Perry
  • Civilization
  • Measure
  • Devastation