“Civilization could not be said to have truly ended until there were no restaurants left.” — William Kowalski Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Being a noninvasive advanced civilization was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Peter Barrett Copy Share Image
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi 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
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains… — Mark A. Rayner Copy Share Image
Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
