The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the naked body evidence of civilization congratulations for the animals they have the civilization — Zakarai Copy Share Image
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization. — Bertrand Russel Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.” — Lilo Abernathy Copy Share Image
“Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image