Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“...our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows." -Martin Renner” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
“Civilization is diaphanous: a dazzling display, beautiful, a brilliant golden orb of order and geometric precision. But just touch it lightly and… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder…well, use it or… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Civilization as well as civility thrive where there is a pot of beer.” — Randy Mosher Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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