The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter. — Anthony H. Cordesman Copy Share Image
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey 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
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
“They're on a cusp; a highly heterogeneous but highly connected--and stressedly connected--civilization. I'm not sure that one approach could encompass the needs… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
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