Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay… — Richard Grossinger Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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