“Every civilization had to start with the basics: food, water, and shelter.” — Brett Arquette Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't actually have cable. I watch TV, but only shows that I buy on DVD. As a result my TV rage… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education.… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
