Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them… — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform… — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems;… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“And at last Man raised on high the final glory of his civilization, the towering edifice of the ultimate city. Softly beneath… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George Copy Share Image
“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than… — Samuel Marsden Copy Share Image
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
