“Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“The typical wage earner spends the major part of every working day performing tasks under the scrutiny of an employer. Often, these… — Richard L. Currier Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values. — Ibn Warraq 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
