Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised,… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog 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