It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
