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
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not… — Andy Hurley Copy Share Image
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the… — Jules Verne 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
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion,… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison 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
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
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
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
