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
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“POUND We spend twelve hundred generations developing so-called civilization to the point where it produces an expert who can offer us salvation… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
I am but a seed planted into a corrupted garden watered by the tears of civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
