When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
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