Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Name one civilization led by two people—a pair. It doesn’t happen. Do you know the fastest path to creating enemies? Forge a… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
