Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals — John Green Copy Share Image
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Because if civilization is going to last, if it's going to amount to anything more than just a place to watch TV… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were… — Roy Casagranda Copy Share Image
“Civilization had long maintained the appearance of such communal closeness, in small units people could manage. Societies had evolved that could stack… — Gardner R. Dozois Copy Share Image
“Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“To many people I have no doubt that it appears merely silly. I once found it expressed in a rather amusing way… — Daniele Varè Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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