Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
“Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process… — Herbert Read 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
“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
