All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Many people think the Pleiadians are in spirit form, but they're not. They exist as a civilization in the fifth/sixth dimensional evolution,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it… — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“Civilizaton rests on the assumption that the universe is kindly disposed towards mankind and intended for our benefit. Imagine the upheaval were… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom –… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
