On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That’s the vicious truth doctor. For me and persons like me, we are experiencing a divorce from our own individual self by… — Neda Aria 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
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself. — Gerald R. Ford 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
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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![“Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were…” quote by Charles Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ba/charles-lindbergh-2267_acacia_lying-under-an-acacia-tree-with-the-soun_2441322.jpg)
![“We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But…” quote by Paul Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/044/paul-davies-3810_aliens_we-could-tell-them-alien-civilization-th_2442959.jpg)
![“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?” quote by Frank Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/305/frank-harris-28254_civilization_referring-to-the-imprisonment-of-oscar-w_2456348.jpg)
