New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
'A Valley Without Wind' takes the idea of dungeon crawls and throws it on its head by casting you as a magic… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes… — Terri Farley Copy Share Image
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were… — Roy Casagranda Copy Share Image
“Civilization had long maintained the appearance of such communal closeness, in small units people could manage. Societies had evolved that could stack… — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
