“An old man who plants a tree whose shade he will never use is the primary component of civilization.” — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.” — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
“Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the… — Danny Hilman Natawidjaja Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
“And at last Man raised on high the final glory of his civilization, the towering edifice of the ultimate city. Softly beneath… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss."… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We cannot use today's civilized standards to judge the mistake of the past. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
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