There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
“The typical wage earner spends the major part of every working day performing tasks under the scrutiny of an employer. Often, these… — Richard L. Currier Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations. — Frederick Lenz 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
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
“Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...],… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct. — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom –… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.” — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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