Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Now many of us celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (instead of or along with Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, Family Feud and/or Family Fun and… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard,… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest… — John Reid Copy Share Image
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
