One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women — Charles Fourier 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
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
“Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict...… — Michael Carter Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter 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
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
