Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of… — Anonymous 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
“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant 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
“The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.” — W.A.R. Gibb Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
