Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly,… — Mary Summer Rain Copy Share Image
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