Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct. — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born Copy Share Image
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes… — Terri Farley Copy Share Image
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into… — Ronald Wright 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
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
