The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
