When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.” — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
“It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The creatures who act as though they belong to the world follow the peace-keeping law, and because they follow that law, they… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
