Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.” — Walter A. McDougall Copy Share Image
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion,… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral… — Ronald Butt Copy Share Image
Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.” — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We cannot use today's civilized standards to judge the mistake of the past. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
