“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West 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
Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image