Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality. — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
“civilization doesn’t separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature. Because” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The city, which should be the symbol and center of civilization, can also be made to function as a concentration camp. This… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis,… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
![“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the sweetest garden for such things to blossom in - though those trapped within it might imagine it so. No, as far as [Karsa] could see, civilization was a…” quote by Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4cf/steven-erikson-588_civilization_compassion-love-it-was-not-civilization_2585292.jpg)
![“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I…” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b98/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_born-free_i-know-that-civilized-men-do-nothing-but_1084258.jpg)
![“Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the…” quote by Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/734/ezra-taft-benson-443_book_our-families-may-be-corrupted-by-worldly_2490305.jpg)
![“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis, that is, to the extent [that] its expressions or forms are transparent to the Non-Formal and tend toward the Origin, thus conveying the recollection of a…” quote by Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/467/frithjof-schuon-23613_civilization_a-civilization-is-integral-and-healthy-t_2868643.jpg)
