There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at or near the apex of a great civilization... In 50-100 years, if we're a poor third… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the… — Sting Copy Share Image
We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
