All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one… — Rudolf Bahro Copy Share Image
“The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now,… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling 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
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ” — Isabella L. Bird Copy Share Image
“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
