The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality. — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it… — David Brin Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority advising subway riders who might… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.” — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
