“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Every civilization had to start with the basics: food, water, and shelter.” — Brett Arquette Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's,… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one… — Rudolf Bahro Copy Share Image
“The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now,… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves 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
“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
