“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a… — Stjepan Mestrovic Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the… — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Now many of us celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (instead of or along with Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, Family Feud and/or Family Fun and… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see… — Anne Leckie Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up… — Muriel Wace Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Understanding is becoming aware of the fact that civilization itself is in trouble and we have done it by overpopulating the planet,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
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