The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain,… — Pipilotti Rist 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
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. — Erin Pizzey Copy Share Image
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I read one time that when the Polynesians were still innocent it wasnt uncommon to see them alongside a road engaging in… — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“We need to learn more. We need to do better. We are all woven together in the fabric of the Earth and… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
