Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated.… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
