“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..." Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.” — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We don't have the right to tell less fortunate disadvantaged people that they can't come to the USA and get what we… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing… — Mel Watt Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“looking back, I think we could have focused less on the Persian threat and more on the religious strife within our own… — Lindsey Fairleigh Copy Share Image
“It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
