In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization,… — William L.J. Galaini Copy Share Image
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of… — Tim Seeley Copy Share Image
We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
