I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized… — Flora Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“What links the peoples of the world together is no longer the rule of civilization or the interplay of demand and supply,… — Wolfgang Sachs Copy Share Image
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“We need to learn more. We need to do better. We are all woven together in the fabric of the Earth and… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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