A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles;… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Civilizaton rests on the assumption that the universe is kindly disposed towards mankind and intended for our benefit. Imagine the upheaval were… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom –… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints Of the North have earned thiscrumb by their complaints. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Every civilization is just an attempt, a best guess...And they're all imperfect, shots in the dark, and they all end in a… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
