Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is… — James Dobson 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
Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader]… — Marek Siwiec Copy Share Image
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image