Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization! — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter… — Jonathan E. Steinberg Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign… — Eugene V. Debs 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
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
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