“What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — William James Will Durant Copy Share Image
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
