“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins… — Count Anton Dance of the Goblins Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained… — Harold E. Puthoff Copy Share Image
