Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners” — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce 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
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon. Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank. Where civilization it began. You… — Capleton Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
