But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You Israeli you should never become lenient if you would kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until you… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
“Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a button we can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
