You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ” — Isabella L. Bird Copy Share Image
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how… — James B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill 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
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson 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
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image