Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be…

— Ian Mcewan

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

— John Dewey

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the…

— Roger Scruton

“Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity... There’s no more art, only too much civilization. Art is barbarious... Art is loneliness... Nothingness…

— Raúl Ruiz

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to…

— Oliver Sacks

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

— Julian Jaynes

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless…

— Anthony H. Cordesman

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of…

— Carlos Fuentes

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.…

— Mata Amritanandamayi