“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death” — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And” — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: 'But when the forbidden… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
“What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes,"… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
