“It is a science fact that some animals do dream. It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Of what value is a civilization that can’t toast a piece of bread as ordered?” Mari” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure. — Bob Bitchin Copy Share Image
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“They're on a cusp; a highly heterogeneous but highly connected--and stressedly connected--civilization. I'm not sure that one approach could encompass the needs… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. — Roscoe Pound Copy Share Image
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake. — Al Gore Copy Share Image