“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon. Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank. Where civilization it began. You… — Capleton Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
