We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
“What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.” — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Gingrich - primary mission Advocate of civilization Definer of civilization Teacher of the Rules of Civilization... Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces... — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter of civilization — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions,… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis,… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem!… — Eça de Queirós Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. — Kenneth W. Harl Copy Share Image
“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
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![“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis, that is, to the extent [that] its expressions or forms are transparent to the Non-Formal and tend toward the Origin, thus conveying the recollection of a…” quote by Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/467/frithjof-schuon-23613_civilization_a-civilization-is-integral-and-healthy-t_2868643.jpg)
![“Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the…” quote by Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/734/ezra-taft-benson-443_book_our-families-may-be-corrupted-by-worldly_2490305.jpg)
![“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the sweetest garden for such things to blossom in - though those trapped within it might imagine it so. No, as far as [Karsa] could see, civilization was a…” quote by Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4cf/steven-erikson-588_civilization_compassion-love-it-was-not-civilization_2585292.jpg)
