I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians… — George Crook Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis,… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts - though its followers might claim otherwise. Nor was civilization the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem!… — Eça de Queirós Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.” — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image