“I am the Fire of Yazd (Sonnet 2992-2993) I am the Fire of Yazd, I won't be extinguished by warring apes. I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey 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
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and… — Jeremy Hammond Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its… — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: 'But when the forbidden… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
