We cannot use today's civilized standards to judge the mistake of the past. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of… — Gilberto Gil 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
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I could have found… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the… — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
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