No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.” — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson 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
“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
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be educated until you're de-europeanized, you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
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