Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
