Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this… — Diane Ravitch 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
Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
