Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“And what is civilization if it ain't people talking over a goddamned beer?” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No successful civilization prior to the 21st century has ever provided legal preferences for same-sex relationships. — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
