The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
