You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street.… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. — Roscoe Pound Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
