The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where… — Geraldine Laybourne Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick,… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of… — Tim Seeley Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
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