If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there… — M.B. Julien Copy Share Image
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I could scarcely summon courage to rise. But even those large, venomous snakes were less dreadful to my imagination than the white… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image
“We’re multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and… — Shane Snow Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained… — Harold E. Puthoff Copy Share Image
We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital… — Sybil Leek Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
