When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.” — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The typical wage earner spends the major part of every working day performing tasks under the scrutiny of an employer. Often, these… — Richard L. Currier Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
