Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

— Demetri Martin

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

— J Walter Thompson

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal…

— Andrew Carnegie

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want…

— George Will

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power…

— Alex Steffen

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

— Nina Fedoroff

“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a…

— Butler Shaffer

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am…

— George Will