“I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
No successful civilization prior to the 21st century has ever provided legal preferences for same-sex relationships. — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of… — David Daiches 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
“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
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
“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
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
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