What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the… — Danny Hilman Natawidjaja Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
