In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tune We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon Captains of the old… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it… — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
“I'm reasonably certain, salmon, swordfish, and hammerhead sharks do not find themselves paralyzed by spasms of self-blame for their plight - What… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies.… — Mark A. Rayner Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“Review history, visionaries advanced our civilization. Without them, we'd have been still in a barbaric and chaotic world. Thank you!!!” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is… — Francis Spellman Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
