Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“looking back, I think we could have focused less on the Persian threat and more on the religious strife within our own… — Lindsey Fairleigh Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his… — William James Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies.… — Mark A. Rayner Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
