The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized. — Louis St. Laurent Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“I could scarcely summon courage to rise. But even those large, venomous snakes were less dreadful to my imagination than the white… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“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
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“But, as I learned from talking to the scientist behind the study cited in that article, the real theory is much more… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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