A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“To be clear, the Roman Empire didn’t end because everybody was having sex. No civilization was ever toppled by “too much sexy… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of… — Alf Landon Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true… — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
