Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Sirius was not merely a star to them. It was a symbol—a guide, a witness to the birth and death of worlds.” — Viktor Tonchev Copy Share Image
“Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization. — Seth Copy Share Image
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. — Erin Pizzey Copy Share Image
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos. — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
