Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
