I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett Copy Share Image
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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