Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain 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
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his… — William James Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain,… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
