The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see… — Dennis Prager 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
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization,… — William L.J. Galaini Copy Share Image
“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
