“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“In the past, the strongest individual was chosen as the leader or ruler. But the concept of civilization has decided to give… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Religions, creeds, drama, poetry, games, folklore, folk tales, mythology, moral and aesthetic codes' elements of the political and juridical life affirming a… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict 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
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And… — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What… — George Will Copy Share Image
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . . — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
