A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped—the focus of the act of being "religious"—were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is characterised by the word 'progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..." Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.” — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
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