“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift… — Paul Raskin Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
But if we keep doing politics the way we're doing politics, and we keep doing climate action the way we're doing climate… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later.… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby.… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We’re searching for intelligent, conscious, tool-making beings that have developed a language we’re capable of understanding. We’re searching for intelligent conscious, tool-making,… — Stephen Webb Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
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