America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations,… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
