“I could see how this civilization will be totally wrecked if all true records of human prehistory are made public.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem!… — Eça de Queirós Copy Share Image
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations,… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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