At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles;… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
