“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“Soon the people will decide that they want their land to be a part of today's monstrous world, and once that happens,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront,… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I used to be endlessly troubled by meat-eating people who were uneasy with hunters and hunting. ... How can someone suggest that… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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