English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where… — Geraldine Laybourne Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Review history, visionaries advanced our civilization. Without them, we'd have been still in a barbaric and chaotic world. Thank you!!!” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
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
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is… — Francis Spellman Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
