Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say… — John Amery Copy Share Image
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in… — Stanley Greene Copy Share Image
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts...… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore,… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on… — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it?… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where… — James Toback Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and… — Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Copy Share Image
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