Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“With the coming of spring they would start back to the highlands, their flocks heavy with fat and wool; the caravans loaded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
