If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the… — Samuel Noah Kramer Copy Share Image
“And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer” — A.M.M Alusi Copy Share Image
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization. — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
