The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote -… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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