It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
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
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Architecture of Time Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard for at least a large group of us to question the… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
