The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan 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
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
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
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared… — Jimmy Sangster Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Republicans will never turn a blind eye to unjust acts, but neither will we accept an all-out assault on Western civilization. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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