The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.” — G Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".” — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners” — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams Copy Share Image
“In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“It is imposible to understand sex as we see it nowadays - a mere response to a few physical stimuli. In reality,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson 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
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
