“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges,… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out… — Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Copy Share Image
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the… — Samuel Noah Kramer Copy Share Image
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
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