As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
