Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem!… — Eça de Queirós Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
