What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see;… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the… — Sting Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
