Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• I was born free.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Free
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Different
  • Change
  • Simple

• I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Real
  • Think

• Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Reality

• The difference between that which is ascribed to God and that which is ascribed to man is expressed in the words... 'And your ways are not my ways.' (Is. lv. 8-9)

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Words

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• ...words were said that could not be put right again...

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Words

• What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Judge

• The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

  

  Bob Barr
  • World
  • Freedom

• Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Time
  • Mind

• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  

  James Buchan
  • Great
  • History
  • Fall

• To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Good

• People often talk about Hispanics. You know, I have more Hispanics come up to me telling me, 'Listen, I can't wait for your father to be president. He's gonna bring jobs back to the United States. He's gonna end the nonsense. He's gonna create good trade deals. He's gonna create better education. He's gonna create a better family structure.'

  

  Eric Trump
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Teen

• There's no question that Mr. Arafat has to make an effort to control violence and that Mr. Sharon has to comply with the requirements to withdraw from zones A.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Question
  • Violence
  • Requirements

• On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against government forces.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Violence
  • Forces
  • Assurance

• When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Energy
  • Destroy
  • Rape

• Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Violence
  • Civilization
  • Destroy