My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western… — Peter Noone Copy Share Image
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert… — Marcus Garvey 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
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends. — William Walker Copy Share Image
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
