Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why should we hate them? Because ours is the only true civilization! Even in science -- consider that we invented the sternpost… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is… — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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