It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I don't actually have cable. I watch TV, but only shows that I buy on DVD. As a result my TV rage… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing.… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
