The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn Copy Share Image
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
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