But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For Guido the past, like a Third World country, was merely another resource to be exploited and abandoned when the time comes;… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“Every society, big or little, misses out on “obvious” technologies. The lacunae have enormous impact on people’s lives—imagine Europe with efficient plows… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“But, as I learned from talking to the scientist behind the study cited in that article, the real theory is much more… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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