Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization, — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unspoken Truths (The Sonnet) Democracy is people-approved dictatorship, Military is people-approved genocide. Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon, In conscience-court all guilty of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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