Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“ I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?” — M.A. George Copy Share Image
“Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For Guido the past, like a Third World country, was merely another resource to be exploited and abandoned when the time comes;… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“Every society, big or little, misses out on “obvious” technologies. The lacunae have enormous impact on people’s lives—imagine Europe with efficient plows… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country;… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and… — Barbara Chase-Riboud Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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