How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe. — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized… — Flora Lewis Copy Share Image
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
