Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization. — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
“civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have… — Thomas DiMauro Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo 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
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.” — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
