Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Of what value is a civilization that can’t toast a piece of bread as ordered?” Mari” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is a science fact that some animals do dream. It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
You Israeli you should never become lenient if you would kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until you… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Every great civilization has crumbled, but their knowledge still remains - Kalyani Rajalingham — Kalyani Rajalingham Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
