Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And… — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer 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
“cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians… — George Crook Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“The human eye has to be one of the cruelest tricks nature ever pulled. We can see a tiny, cone-shaped area of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
