When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the 20th century.… — james baldwin Copy Share Image
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote -… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization.… — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world. — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name… — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
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