But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it… — Stephen Hawking 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
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
“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
“...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
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
