“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not… — Andy Hurley Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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