It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard,… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest… — John Reid Copy Share Image
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England… — D. H. Lawrence 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
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion. — Ann Dunham Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
“I'm reasonably certain, salmon, swordfish, and hammerhead sharks do not find themselves paralyzed by spasms of self-blame for their plight - What… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself. — David "Doc" Searls Copy Share Image
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind. — Rose Macaulay 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
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
