Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha 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
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
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
“Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
