The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them… — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one… — Rudolf Bahro Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams 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
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
