The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are -… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is… — John Stott Copy Share Image
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard for at least a large group of us to question the… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name… — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was… — Amar Annus Copy Share Image