Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir Copy Share Image
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
