Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of… — Ernest Klein Copy Share Image
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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