The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization. — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he… — John Acquaviva Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
“Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
