“Every civilization had to start with the basics: food, water, and shelter.” — Brett Arquette Copy Share Image
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add… — Sam Harris 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
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“In completing your civilization, the causes changed, but you maintained the custom: no longer did you sacrifice victims to gods athirst for… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are… — George Will Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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