In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
“What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.” — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Music is a fundamental part of our civilization, so when it goes to sub zero, we have two choices, right? We do… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
“I used to be endlessly troubled by meat-eating people who were uneasy with hunters and hunting. ... How can someone suggest that… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
“...our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows." -Martin Renner” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
“Civilization as well as civility thrive where there is a pot of beer.” — Randy Mosher Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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