“Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.… — Billy Graham 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
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles 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
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
