The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence… — Anonymous 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
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing… — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not… — Sullivan Ballou Copy Share Image
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
