The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
