“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.” — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges,… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
