“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death.… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus,… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated.… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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