Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty,… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's,… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
