The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
“Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder…well, use it or… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
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Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
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