The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. We've seen it in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become...… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails… — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
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Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
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