India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I oppose preserving civilization because I have a better chance of getting laid in a post-apocalyptic world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.” — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter… — Jonathan E. Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“That every civilization emerges out of interactions with others, but nevertheless creates its own miracle, was not yet recognized by either European… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Now I know what development means: air-conditioning. With air-conditioning, we can have civilization, which exists only in temperate climates. ” — Lawrence Chua Copy Share Image
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is… — Ko Wen-je Copy Share Image
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table,… — Gary Sherman Copy Share Image
“Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
