The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where… — Geraldine Laybourne Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the… — Danny Hilman Natawidjaja Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“And at last Man raised on high the final glory of his civilization, the towering edifice of the ultimate city. Softly beneath… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss."… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“In a blind pursuit of endless revenue, we've confused inflation with civilization.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. — Charles Siebert Copy Share Image
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
