“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Reach for the stars all you want, but anchor your soul in the soil.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with… — Ryel Kestenbaum Copy Share Image
