The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“What links the peoples of the world together is no longer the rule of civilization or the interplay of demand and supply,… — Wolfgang Sachs Copy Share Image
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir 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
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized… — Flora Lewis Copy Share Image
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
