What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges,… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out… — Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Copy Share Image
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians… — George Crook Copy Share Image
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“We’re multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and… — Shane Snow Copy Share Image
“Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
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