A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“The first measure of any civilization is how it deals with its trash.” — Micah R. Sisk Copy Share Image
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Or maybe the ugliness is in us. That's just the way we are. Underneath the pretense of civilization.” — Bethany Griffin Copy Share Image
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization. — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the… — Samuel Noah Kramer Copy Share Image
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
“And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly,… — Mary Summer Rain Copy Share Image
“We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
