Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“ Telegraph Road A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
