An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked… — Robert Strausz-Hupe Copy Share Image
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West… — Aleksandr Dugin Copy Share Image
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
