Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Remember, for 5,000 years people probably rode those horses. They probably felt that horses were a permanent part of civilization. Everybody has… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
