“A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization” — Stjepan Mestrovic Copy Share Image
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization. — Ken Blackwell Copy Share Image
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not… — Sullivan Ballou Copy Share Image
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art… — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
