From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations,… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
