America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher 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
And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend.… — Peter Jelen Copy Share Image
“Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tune We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon Captains of the old… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
