Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women. — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there… — M.B. Julien Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it...… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
“Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization. — E. Cheraskin Copy Share Image
“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way” — will rogers Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image