Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in… — Louis Stanley Copy Share Image
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage.… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
I read one time that when the Polynesians were still innocent it wasnt uncommon to see them alongside a road engaging in… — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization. — David Kim Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the… — Henry Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
“We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
