To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict...… — Michael Carter Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
