Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.” — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage.… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. — William James Copy Share Image
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
