It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization! — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
If human civilization were to be destroyed and its cities wiped off the map, there would be an easy way for future… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region.… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“I could see how this civilization will be totally wrecked if all true records of human prehistory are made public.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Wrecking civilization one story at a time." "That hardest day in any cancer patient's life is the day after he's cured." "Some… — T. Fox Dunham Copy Share Image
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.” — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.” — Donna Boyd Copy Share Image
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