I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
