“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada,… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I am but a seed planted into a corrupted garden watered by the tears of civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
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