Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.” — W.A.R. Gibb Copy Share Image
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader]… — Marek Siwiec Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image