The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon. Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank. Where civilization it began. You… — Capleton Copy Share Image
We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises 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
“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is… — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
“Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ” — Isabella L. Bird Copy Share Image
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners” — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams Copy Share Image
“In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
