An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution… — Ro Khanna 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
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . . — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What… — George Will Copy Share Image
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped—the focus of the act of being "religious"—were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f5/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_civilization_i-t-is-necessary-to-insist-upon-this-ext_1538279.jpg)
