“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.” — David P. Goldman Copy Share Image
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress. — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn 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
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of… — Edmund Bourne Copy Share Image
“When the Greeks were free they created a civilization advanced beyond anything else in the world. When Rome imposed its imperial rule… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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