“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of… — Tim Seeley Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
“Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Many people think the Pleiadians are in spirit form, but they're not. They exist as a civilization in the fifth/sixth dimensional evolution,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image