The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“How easily the paint of civilization peels off with a little bad weather.” — Christopher Buehlman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long. — L Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Wake up you must, and step up you must, not should, but must, for only then, can an animal world be changed… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will… — Laurence McKinley Gould Copy Share Image
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Could these wonderful inventions have never been created without first going down the road of armaments and warfare? Was it acceptable that… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest… — John Reid Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in… — David Spade Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“But it’s a pretense, it’s artificial,” Adelia protested. “Love, honor, respect. When are they ever extended to everyday women? I doubt if… — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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