The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick,… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, regents, prefects, or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits - and everything takes its… — Frederick Engels Copy Share Image
Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume… — Jacquetta Hawkes Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
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