It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty,… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.” — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no… — Al Diamond Copy Share Image
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. — H. C. Bailey Copy Share Image
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
