Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle… — charlie huston Copy Share Image
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. — Zhou Shengxian Copy Share Image
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. — H. C. Bailey Copy Share Image
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
