When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals — John Green Copy Share Image
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“Call it pious, but whether unified or divided, the civilized will try to live worlds apart from violence.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems;… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
